- Series
- Undergraduate Seminar
- Time
- Monday, September 30, 2019 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- John McCuan – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Neha Gupta Enid Steinbart
I will describe a few classical problems in capillarity and the associated classical variational framework. These problems include the well-known shape and rise height problems for the meniscus in a tube as well as the problems associated with sessile and pendent drops. I will briefly discuss elements of recent modifications of the variational theory allowing floating objects. Finally, I will describe a few open problems.