Capillary drops on a rough surface

DOI10.4171/IFB/278MaRDI QIDQ446428zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Antoine Mellet, James Nolen

Publication date 6 September 2012

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/IFB/278

zbMATH Keywords

capillary dropsfree boundary problemshomogenizationrandom media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

Review text

Summary: We study liquid drops lying on a rough planar surface. The drops are minimizers of an energy functional that includes a random adhesion energy. We prove the existence of minimizers and the regularity of the free boundary. When the length scale of the randomly varying surface is small, we show that minimizers are close to spherical caps which are minimizers of an averaged energy functional. In particular, we give an error estimate that is algebraic in the scale parameter and holds with high probability.

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