The shape of charged drops over a solid surface and symmetry-breaking instabilities

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-148

  Fontelost, M A ^a   Kindelan U ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary integral method; Electrowetting; Symmetry breaking bifurcations; Variational formulation

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DROPS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROSTATICS;

AXIAL SYMMETRIES; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; AXISYMMETRIC; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHODS; CHARGED DROPS; CONDUCTING FLUIDS; ELECTRIC CAPACITIES; ELECTROWETTING; EQUILIBRIUM SHAPES; GAS INTERFACES; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; LIQUID INTERFACES; SOLID SUBSTRATES; SOLID SURFACES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING BIFURCATIONS; TWO PARAMETERS; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION; VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 55149120121     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080713707     Document Type: Article

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