dc.contributor.advisor | Benilov, Eugene | |
dc.contributor.advisor | O'Brien, Stephen B.G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haynes, Matthew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-17T09:09:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-17T09:09:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10344/8163 | |
dc.description | peer-reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the static equilibrium shapes and stability of various capillary surfaces. The equilibrium shapes are accurately approximated using asymptotic series solutions in the micro-gravity limit. The stability of two of these capillary surfaces is then examined using an energy functional method and these results corroborated using a linear stability analysis. Finally, a method of improving the stability of a vertical liquid bridge is examined numerically and experimentally. The problems considered in this thesis are motivated by a stent problem described in the rst chapter but, in fact, capillary phenomena are ubiquitous in science, nature and industry and the work here has wide reaching applications. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Limerick | en_US |
dc.subject | static equilibrium shapes | en_US |
dc.subject | mathematics | en_US |
dc.title | Static capillary structures and their stability | en_US |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | all_ul_research | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | ul_published_reviewed | en_US |
dc.type.supercollection | ul_theses_dissertations | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |