Dynamic Stability of Equilibrium Capillary Drops |
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Authors: | William M Feldman Inwon C Kim |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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Abstract: | We investigate a model for contact angle motion of quasi-static capillary drops resting on a horizontal plane. We prove global in time existence and long time behavior (convergence to equilibrium) in a class of star-shaped initial data for which we show that topological changes of drops can be ruled out for all times. Our result applies to any drop which is initially star-shaped with respect to a small ball inside the drop, given that the volume of the drop is sufficiently large. For the analysis, we combine geometric arguments based on the moving-plane type method with energy dissipation methods based on the formal gradient flow structure of the problem. |
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