Use of an electric field to keep bubbles and drops in a given shape and position in a liquid dielectric

A study is made of the problem of finding an electric field that keeps a spherical gas bubble in a fixed position in a dielectric liquid in a gravity field.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 101–105, November–December, 1982.We thank I. E. Tarapov for helpful advice and discussion of the results.