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On pendent drops in a capillary tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

G. Huisken
G. Huisken
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, Act 2601, Australia.
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Abstract

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The energy functional for a pendent drop in a capillary tube is neither convex nor bounded from below. We obtain local minima of the energy by making the physically reasonable assumption that the gravitation or the prescribed volume of the drop is small.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , December 1983 , pp. 343 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1983

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