A boundary element solution to the soap bubble problem

DOI10.1007/S004660000224MaRDI QIDQ5937894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John T. Katsikadelis, Maria S. Nerantzaki

Publication date 18 July 2001

Published in Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004660000224

zbMATH Keywords

boundary element methodnumerical examplessoap bubble problemuniformly stretched membrane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Membranes (74K15) Thin films (74K35)

Review text

The boundary element method (BEM) is applied to the soap bubble problem -- that is, to the problem of determining the surface that a soap bubble constrained by bounding contours assumes under the action of molecular forces. This is also the shape of a uniformly stretched membrane bounded by one or more nonintersecting curves and the resulting governing equation is nonlinear. The problem is solved making use of the analogue equation method. According to this method the nonlinear membrane is substituted by a linear one subjected to a fictitious transverse load. The fictitious load is established using the BEM. Numerical examples are presented which illustrate the method and demonstrate its accuracy.

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