## On capillary free surfaces in the absence of gravity.(English)Zbl 0382.76003

Summary: The authors prove various existence and non-existence theorems for solutions of the differential equation for a surface film bounded by various shapes of cylinder. Some experiments on freely falling cylinders are quoted and it is claimed that the shapes of film seen are in accordance with theory.
Reviewer: H. N. V. Temperley

### MSC:

 76A20 Thin fluid films 76D99 Incompressible viscous fluids 35A01 Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence 35J67 Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems 53A10 Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature
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