Colloquium: Soap bubble clusters

DOI10.1103/REVMODPHYS.79.821MaRDI QIDQ3077058zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Frank Morgan

Publication date 21 February 2011

Published in Reviews of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/REVMODPHYS.79.821

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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Cites work

• Isoperimetric inequalities in crystallography
• Proof of the double bubble conjecture
• Proof of the double bubble conjecture in \(\mathbb{R}^4\) and certain higher dimensional cases.
• Proof of the planar triple bubble conjecture
• Regularity of area-minimizing surfaces in 3D polytopes and of invariant hypersurfaces in R^n
• The honeycomb conjecture
• The standard double soap bubble in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) uniquely minimizes perimeter
• The structure of area-minimizing double bubbles
• The Surface Evolver

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• Soap bubbles in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) and in surfaces
• Quantum corrections to generic branes: DBI, NLSM, and more
• A lower bound for the area of plateau foams
• Open problems in soap bubble geometry
• When Soap Bubbles Collide
• Mathematicians, Including Undergraduates, Look at Soap Bubbles
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1105472 (Why is no real title available?)
• Double bubbles for immiscible fluids in \(\mathbb R^n\)
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• Are large perimeter-minimizing two-dimensional clusters of equal-area bubbles hexagonal or circular?
• A structure‐preserving finite element approximation of surface diffusion for curve networks and surface clusters
• A sharp-interface approach for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films with double-bubble structure
• Planar soap bubble clusters with multiple cavities

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