Submitted Paper

Inserted: 6 aug 2021
Last Updated: 6 aug 2021

Year: 2021

Abstract:

We consider a model for vapor-liquid-solid growth of nanowires proposed in the physical literature. Liquid drops are described as local or global volume-constrained minimizers of the capillarity energy outside a semi-infinite convex obstacle modeling the nanowire. We first address the existence of global minimizers and then, in the case of rotationally symmetric nanowires, we investigate how the presence of a sharp edge affects the shape of local minimizers and the validity of Young's law.

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