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Isoperimetric models for charged liquid drops

Speaker: 
Matteo Novaga
Institution: 
Univ. Pisa
Schedule: 
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 14:00
Location: 
A-133
Abstract: 

We consider an isoperimetric model describing the equilibrium shape of a liquid charged drop. The resulting functional contains an attracting term, modeled by the perimeter, and a repulsive term depending on the amount of charge and the electrostatic capacity of the drop. We show that in general the resulting variational problem is ill-posed. We then consider several modifications of it and we investigate existence, uniqueness and stability results.

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