Capillary drops: contact angle hysteresis and sticking drops

DOI10.1007/s00526-006-0036-yzbMath1168.76007OpenAlexW2010280662MaRDI QIDQ878171

Antoine Mellet, Luis A. Caffarelli

Publication date: 26 April 2007

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-006-0036-y

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalminimizershomogenizationcompactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27)

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