The Stability of Cylindrical Pendant Drops.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781470442026
- 530.4/27
- QC156 .M338 2017
Cover -- Title page -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Normalization, stability condition, and elementary properties -- 1.1. ODEs for Cylindrical Profiles -- 1.2. Elementary Properties -- 1.3. Proofs of Elementary Properties -- Chapter 2. One Parameter Families -- Definition of ₂ -- 2.1. Continuous families -- 2.2. Enclosed volume/cross-sectional area -- 2.3. Smooth families -- profile arclength -- 2.4. More on enclosed volume -- 2.5. Further properties of drop profiles -- Chapter 3. Stability -- 3.1. Separation of Variables -- 3.2. Decomposition -- 3.3. Secondary variational problems and PDE results -- 3.4. Initial Stability -- 3.5. Geometric interpretation of (H) -- 3.6. Geometric interpretation of (V) -- initial stable families -- 3.7. A surprise -- Chapter 4. Infinitely long drops -- Chapter 5. Zero gravity and soap bubbles -- Chapter 6. Open problems -- Appendix 1: Explicit formulas -- Appendix 2: Sturm-Liouville Theory -- Appendix 3: Elliptic integrals -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.
The author considers the stability of certain liquid drops in a gravity field satisfying a mixed boundary condition. He also considers as special cases portions of cylinders that model either the zero gravity case or soap films with the same kind of boundary behavior.
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