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We review classical results where the method of the moving planes has been used to prove symmetry properties for overdetermined PDE's boundary value problems (such as Serrin's overdetermined problem) and for rigidity problems in geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Roncoroni

We investigate the motion through a wet tube of transverse soap films, or lamellae, of high surface dilatationnal modulus. Combining local thickness and velocity measurements in the wetting film, we reveal a zone of several centimeters in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-16 Isabelle Cantat , Benjamin Dollet

Surface bubbles are present in many industrial processes and in nature, as well as in CO$_2$ beverage. They have motivated many theoretical, numerical and experimental works. This paper presents the current knowledge on the physics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-16 Jonas Miguet , Florence Rouyer , Emmanuelle Rio

The axisymmetric flow of a thin liquid film is considered for the problem of a vertically rotating disk that is partially immersed in a liquid bath. A model for the fully three-dimensional free-boundary problem of the rotating disk, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 K. Afanasiev , A. Münch , B. Wagner

In this short note, we deal with Serrin-type problems in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, we provide a Soap Bubble type theorem and rigidity results. In another direction, we obtain a rigidity result addressed to annular regions in Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Jaqueline de Lima , Márcio Santos , Joyce Sindeaux

We develop a general framework for the description of instabilities on soap films using the Bj\"orling representation of minimal surfaces. The construction is naturally geometric and the instability has the interpretation as being specified…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-09 Gareth P. Alexander , Thomas Machon

The Kirchhoff-Plateau problem concerns the equilibrium shapes of a system in which a flexible filament in the form of a closed loop is spanned by a liquid film, with the filament being modeled as a Kirchhoff rod and the action of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Giulio G. Giusteri , Luca Lussardi , Eliot Fried

We prove integral formulas for closed hypersurfaces in C^{n+1}, which furnish a relation between elementary symmetric functions in the eigenvalues of the complex Hessian matrix of the defining function and the Levi curvatures of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-16 Vittorio Martino , Annamaria Montanari

We discuss the behaviour of a thin soap film facing a frame element: the pressure in the Plateau border around the frame is lower than the film pressure, and the film thins out over a certain distance lambda(t), due to the formation of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Achod Aradian , Elie Raphael , Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

A soap film, or a flexible membrane without bending and torsional stiffness, that is confined in a cylinder is shown to be susceptible to a surface-tension-driven instability when it is stretched or twisted. This leads to its breakdown and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-03 Simon Cox , Siân Jones

The surface tension of flowing soap films is measured with respect to the film thickness and the concentration of soap solution. We perform this measurement by measuring the curvature of the nylon wires that bound the soap film channel and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-22 Aakash Sane , Shreyas Mandre , Ildoo Kim

We follow the diffusive motion of colloidal particles of diameter $d$ in soap films of varying thickness $h$ with fluorescence microscopy. Diffusion constants are obtained both from one- and two-particle microrheological measurements of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-09 V. Prasad , Eric R. Weeks

We propose here a fluid dynamics video relating the bursting of soap rigid films.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-14 Pauline C. Petit , Anne-Laure Biance

For dry foams, the transport of gas from small high-pressure bubbles to large low-pressure bubbles is dominated by diffusion across the thin soap films separating neighboring bubbles. For wetter foams, the film areas become smaller as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-04 C. D. Schimming , D. J. Durian

This paper is devoted to investigating the sequence of some linear functionals in the space $BV$ of finite variation functions. We prove that under certain conditions this sequence is bounded. We also prove that this result is sharp. In…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 L-E. Persson , V. Tsagareishvili , G. Tutberidze

Based on a microscopic density functional theory we investigate the morphology of thin liquidlike wetting films adsorbed on substrates endowed with well-defined chemical heterogeneities. As paradigmatic cases we focus on a single chemical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Bauer , S. Dietrich

If we pull out rapidly a metallic frame out of a surfactant solution, we arrive at a "young" soap film with relatively simple features, as noticed first by Lucassen. The weight of the film is equilibrated by a vertical gradient of surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

In the past few years, the research on sober spaces and well-filtered spaces has got some breakthrough progress. In this paper, we shall present a brief summarising survey on some of such development. Furthermore, we shall pose and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Xiaoquan Xu , Dongsheng Zhao

We consider the motion of a two-layer thin film that consists of two immiscible viscous fluids and is endowed with an anti-surfactant solute. The presence of such solute particles induces variations of the surface tension and interfacial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Rahul Barthwal , Christian Rohde

In this work, we investigate the behaviour of the covering gonality of a very general hypersurface in a product of projective spaces. Inspired by the work of Bastianelli, Ciliberto, Flamini and Suppino in [BCFS19] which addresses the case…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Raphaël Hiault