Fluid films with curvature elasticity

David Steigmann (1)

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering [Berkeley]

The phenomenology of surfactant fluid-film microstructures interspersed in bulk fluids poses significant challenges to continuum theory. By using simple models of elastic surfaces, chemical physicists have been partially successful in describing the qualitative features of ...

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

David Steigmann. Fluid films with curvature elasticity. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 1999, 150 (2), pp.127-152. ⟨hal-00787206⟩