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The Shape of Charged Drops: Symmetrybreaking Bifurcations and Numerical Results

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Elliptic and Parabolic Problems

Part of the book series: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications ((PNLDE,volume 63))

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We prove the existence of both stable and unstable stationary nonspherical shapes for charged, isolated liquid drops of a conducting Newtonian fluid. These shapes are spheroids whose eccentricity is an increasing function of the total charge. We also develop a numerical method based on the Boundary Integral Method in order to compute the stable shapes.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311430, Denton, TX, 76203-1430, USA

    S.I. Betelú

  2. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933, Móstoles, Spain

    M.A. Fontelos

  3. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Métodos Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28003, Madrid, Spain

    U. Kindelán

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  1. Mathematisches Institut, Universität Basel, Rheinsprung 21, 4051, Basel, Switzerland

    Catherine Bandle

  2. Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), CAMS, 54, Boulevard Raspail, 75006, Paris, France

    Henri Berestycki

  3. Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Haute-Alsace, 4 rue des frères Lumières, 68093, Mulhouse Cedex, France

    Bernard Brighi

  4. Laboratoire de Gestion des Risques et Environnement, Université de Haute-Alsace, 25, rue de Chemnitz, 68200, Mulhouse, France

    Alain Brillard

  5. Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland

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  6. Département de mathématiques, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 425, 91405, Orsay, France

    Jean-Michel Coron

  7. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via Cintia, 80126, Napoli, Italy

    Carlo Sbordone

  8. Department of Mathematics, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

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  9. CNR-IAC, Viale del Policlinico, 137, 00161, Roma, Italy

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  10. Dipartimento di metodi e modelli matematici per le Scienze Aplicate, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy

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Betelú, S., Fontelos, M., Kindelán, U. (2005). The Shape of Charged Drops: Symmetrybreaking Bifurcations and Numerical Results. In: Bandle, C., et al. Elliptic and Parabolic Problems. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 63. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7384-9_6

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