2 papers
math.AP2026
Existence and uniqueness of minimizers for axisymmetric nematic films
Giulia Bevilacqua, Chiara Lonati, Luca Lussardi +1
Nematic surfaces are thin liquid films endowed with in-plane orientational order. We study a variational model in which the nematic director is constrained to lie in the tangent sp…
math.AP2024
Soap films: from the Plateau problem to deformable boundaries
Giulia Bevilacqua, Luca Lussardi, Alfredo Marzocchi
A review on the classical Plateau problem is presented. Then, the state of the art about the Kirchhoff-Plateau problem is illustrated as well as some possible future directions of…