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Lagrangian formulation of bubble dynamics


Author: D. Y. Hsieh
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 33 (1975), 115-130
MSC: Primary 76.53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/446078
MathSciNet review: 446078
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Abstract: The dynamical problem of two ideal fluids separated by an interface is formulated in terms of general coordinates in Lagrangian variables. The same problem is shown to be equivalent to a Hamiltonian variational principle which takes into account explicitly the surface energy of the interface between the two fluids. The formulation is applied to the motion of slightly nonspherical bubbles. It is shown that, although we start from an entirely different set of differential equations, the results of the linear stability analysis in Eulerian formulation are recovered.


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