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Infiltrations in immiscible fluids systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2007

Gian Paolo Leonardi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Sommarive, 14, 38050 Povo-Trento, Italy (gippo@science.unitn.it)

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<jcijSij‖, 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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001

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