Capillary surfaces: stability from families of equilibria with application to the liquid bridge

DOI10.1098/rspa.1995.0051zbMath0938.76035MaRDI QIDQ4861244

Brian James Lowry, Paul H. Steen

Publication date: 27 June 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1995.0051

zbMATH Keywords

unstable modes; fixed contact angle; axisymmetric liquid drop; fixed contact line; stability states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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