Soap film spanning an elastic link
Mathematical Physics
2017-11-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs
math.MP
Abstract
We study the equilibrium problem of a system consisting by several Kirchhoff rods linked in an arbitrary way and tied by a soap film, using techniques of the Calculus of Variations. We prove the existence of a solution with minimum energy, which may be quite irregular, and perform experiments confirming the kind of surface predicted by the model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.08263,
title = {Soap film spanning an elastic link},
author = {Giulia Bevilacqua and Luca Lussardi and Alfredo Marzocchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08263},
year = {2017}
}