Infiltrations in immiscible fluids systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2007
Abstract
In this paper we prove a certain regularity property of configurations of immiscible fluids, filling a bounded container Ω and locally minimizing the interface energy ∑i<jcij‖Sij‖, where Sij represents the interface between fluid i and fluid j, ‖·‖ stands for area or more general area-type functional, and cij is a positive coefficient. More precisely, we show that, under strict triangularity of the cij, no infiltrations of other fluids are allowed between two main ones. A remarkable consequence of this fact is the almost-everywhere regularity of the interfaces. Our analysis is performed in general dimension n ≥ 2 and with volume constraints on fluids.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 425 - 436
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001
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