Generalized solutions of the capillary problem

DOI10.1007/S00021-003-0094-2MaRDI QIDQ1885358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markus Scholz

Publication date 28 October 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-003-0094-2

zbMATH Keywords

capillary surfaces, zero gravity, cuspsgeneralized solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

Review text

It is known that the capillary problem has not always a solution if the gravity is zero even for bounded domains with smooth boundaries. In the case that a two-dimensional domain has a cusp with an opening angle zero then there is no solution. The author shows that there exists a generalized solution in the sense of M. Miranda. The major difficulty was that previous existence results are based on the assumption of a Lipschitz boundary which is not the case here. The main tool for the proof of the existence is an existence-nonexistence theorem for generalized solutions due to Finn. The results of the author provide hints where the liquid along small touching tubes is located; see a paper of the same author [J. Math. Fluid Mech. 6, 295--310 (2004; Zbl 1050.92041)].

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