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Capillary surfaces at a re-entrant corner

Posted on:2006-10-16Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Stanford UniversityCandidate:Shi, DanzhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1458390005495979Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
It is known that a capillary surface expressible as a graph over a domain containing a protruding corner can exhibit strikingly varying behavior, with discontinuous transitions, depending on local boundary conditions. Korevaar in 1980 showed that very different kinds of behavior must be expected when the corner opening exceeds pi (re-entrant corner), and later Lancaster and Siegel extended that result to indicate a remarkable range in the kinds of behavior that can occur. In the present work, I will characterize all possible modes of behavior for this case, subject to a conjecture of Concus and Finn for the protruding angle case.
Keywords/Search Tags:Corner, Behavior
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