Stability and bifurcation of a soap film spanning a flexible loop

DOI10.1007/S10659-013-9458-XMaRDI QIDQ457165zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eliot Fried, Yichao Chen

Publication date 26 September 2014

Published in Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3521

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationclosed-curve problemEuler-Lagrange equationsEuler-Plateau problemflexural rigiditysecond variation conditionsoap filmstabilitysurface tensionthread problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Sensitivity, stability, well-posedness (49K40) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential line geometry (53A25)

Abstract: The Euler--Plateau problem, proposed by cite{gm}, concerns a soap film spanning a flexible loop. The shapes of the film and the loop are determined by the interactions between the two components. In the present work, the Euler--Plateau problem is reformulated to yield a boundary-value problem for a vector field that parameterizes both the spanning surface and the bounding loop. Using the first and second variations of the relevant free-energy functional, detailed bifurcation and stability analyses are performed. For spanning surface with energy density $sigma$ and a bounding loop with length $2piR$ and bending rigidity $a$, the first bifurcation, during which the spanning surface remains flat but the bounding loop becomes noncircular, occurs at $sigma{R}^3/a=3$, confirming a result obtained previously via an energy comparison. Other bifurcation solution branches, including those emanating from the flat circular solution branch to nonplanar solution branches, are also shown to be unstable.

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