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Inserted: 14 sep 2017
Last Updated: 14 sep 2017
Year: 2017
Abstract:
We review some recent results on the equilibrium shapes of charged liquid drops. We show that the natural variational model is ill-posed and how this can be overcome by either restricting the class of competitors or by adding penalizations in the functional. The original contribution of this note is twofold. First, we prove existence of an optimal distribution of charge for a conducting drop subject to an external electric eld. Second, we prove that there exists no optimal conducting drop in this setting.
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