Cusps in interfacial problems

zbMATH Open1291.35159arXiv0910.3499MaRDI QIDQ5168366FDOQ5168366

Jens Eggers, Marco A. Fontelos

Publication date: 3 July 2014

Abstract: A wide range of equations related to free surface motion in two dimensions exhibit the formation of cusp singularities either in time, or as function of a parameter. We review a number of specific examples, relating in particular to fluid flow and to wave motion, and show that they exhibit one of two types of singularity: cusp or swallowtail. This results in a universal scaling form of the singularity, and permits a tentative classification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3499

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zbMATH Keywords

self-similaritysingularitiesfree surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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