A Variational Approach to Contact Angle Saturation and Contact Line Instability in Static Electrowetting

DOI10.1093/qjmam/hbp016zbMath1239.76035MaRDI QIDQ3648453

Ultano Kindelan Bustelo, Marco Antonio Fontelos

Publication date: 26 November 2009

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbp016

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation; electrostatic energy; interfacial energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M30: Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

76W05: Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics

76E25: Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows

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