The Shape of Charged Drops over a Solid Surface and Symmetry-Breaking Instabilities

DOI10.1137/080713707zbMath1159.35436MaRDI QIDQ3614139

Marco Antonio Fontelos, Ultano Kindelan Bustelo

Publication date: 16 March 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://oa.upm.es/2182/

zbMATH Keywords

variational formulation; boundary integral method; electrowetting; symmetry-breaking bifurcations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M30: Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

35J50: Variational methods for elliptic systems

76W05: Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

65N38: Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs