Capillary floating and the billiard ball problem

DOI10.1007/s00021-011-0071-0zbMath1294.76075arXiv1012.2448OpenAlexW2103417611MaRDI QIDQ740352

Eugene Gutkin

Publication date: 2 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2448

zbMATH Keywords

invariant curvescontact anglearbitrary orientationbilliard ball problemconstant angle causticsdomains of constant widthfloating in neutral equilibriumtrigonometric equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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