TY - JOUR
T1 - Flow by mean curvature of slowly rotating liquid drops toward stable energy minimisers
AU - Wilkin-Smith, Nigel
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - We establish sufficient conditions for uniqueness in the context of an energy minimisation property derived earlier by the author for rotating liquid drops of arbitrary dimension. In particular, we obtain unique, global solutions of an associated geometric evolution equation whenever appropriate restrictions are placed on an initial condition corresponding to a fixed angular velocity. These solutions are demonstrated to converge smoothly to a known stable minimal equilibrium, and we prove that the boundary of each such energy minimiser is uniquely determined in a Lipschitz neighbourhood of the unit sphere.
AB - We establish sufficient conditions for uniqueness in the context of an energy minimisation property derived earlier by the author for rotating liquid drops of arbitrary dimension. In particular, we obtain unique, global solutions of an associated geometric evolution equation whenever appropriate restrictions are placed on an initial condition corresponding to a fixed angular velocity. These solutions are demonstrated to converge smoothly to a known stable minimal equilibrium, and we prove that the boundary of each such energy minimiser is uniquely determined in a Lipschitz neighbourhood of the unit sphere.
KW - 49Q10
KW - 76B45
KW - 76U05
KW - Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53C44
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67651065426&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00209-008-0398-2
DO - 10.1007/s00209-008-0398-2
M3 - Article
SN - 0025-5874
VL - 262
SP - 743
EP - 774
JO - Mathematische Zeitschrift
JF - Mathematische Zeitschrift
IS - 4
ER -