Local and global existence criteria for capillary surfaces in wedges

DOI10.1007/BF01190821MaRDI QIDQ1917673zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert Finn

Publication date 19 October 1997

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01190821

zbMATH Keywords

boundary protruding corner pointconstant curvaturecontact anglemoon domainszero-gravity capillarity equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45)

Review text

(Author's introduction.) This paper addresses a conjecture of \textit{P. Concus} and \textit{R. Finn} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 27, No. 1, 56-69 (1996; Zbl 0843.76012)] on conditions for local existence of solutions of the zero-gravity capillarity equation at a boundary protruding corner point \(P\) of prescribed opening angle \(2\alpha\). Geometrically, surfaces of constant mean curvature \(H\) are sought as graphs which meet vertical walls over the boundary in prescribed angles, which are locally constant except for a possible jump discontinuity at \(P\). The conjecture is settled more or less completely in the affirmative manner, depending on whether \(H\) is to be prescribed. The proof proceeds through a global existence theorem for ``moon domains, which seems to be of independent interest.

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