Regularity of free boundaries in anisotropic capillarity problems and the validity of Young's law

DOI10.1007/S00205-014-0813-2zbMATH Open1321.35158arXiv1402.0549OpenAlexW2090210933MaRDI QIDQ2340940FDOQ2340940

Francesco Maggi, Guido De Philippis

Publication date: 21 April 2015

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Local volume-constrained minimizers in anisotropic capillarity problems develop free boundaries on the walls of their containers. We prove the regularity of the free boundary outside a closed negligible set, showing in particular the validity of Young's law at almost every point of the free boundary. Our regularity results are not specific to capillarity problems, and actually apply to sets of finite perimeter (and thus to codimension one integer rectifiable currents) arising as minimizers in other variational problems with free boundaries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0549

zbMATH Keywords

Young's lawcapillarity problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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