On a variational problem for soap films with gravity and partially free boundary

DOI10.2969/jmsj/1158242062zbMath1072.49029OpenAlexW2011377055MaRDI QIDQ2483791

Miyuki Koiso, Bennett Palmer

Publication date: 1 August 2005

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/1158242062

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalsoap filmgravitational energypartially free boundarystability of critical point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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