Drop-tower experiments for capillary surfaces in an exotic container

Conference · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6380240

Concus, P ^[1]; Finn, R ^[2]; Weislogel, M ^[3]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
2. Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Dept. of Mathematics
3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (USA). Lewis Research Center

Low-gravity drop-tower experiments are carried out for an exotic'' rotationally-symmetric container, which admits an entire continuum of distinct equilibrium symmetric capillary free surfaces. It is found that an initial equilibrium planar interface, a member of the continuum, will reorient toward a non-symmetric interface, as predicted by recent mathematical theory. 7 refs., 4 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER; NASA; NSF
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6380240
• Report Number(s): LBL-29776; AIAA--91-0107; CONF-910117--3; ON: DE91005370
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

657000* -- Theoretical & Mathematical Physics
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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ASYMMETRY
CONTAINERS
FLUIDS
GRAVITATION
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
INTERFACES
SURFACES