Wrinkling of an elastic sheet floating on a liquid sphere

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Main Authors: Bella, Peter, Román, Carlos
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Published: 2023
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author Bella, Peter
Román, Carlos
author_facet Bella, Peter
Román, Carlos
contents A thin circular elastic sheet floating on a drop-like liquid substrate is deformed due to incompatibility between the curved substrate and the planar sheet. We adopt a variational viewpoint by minimizing the non-convex membrane energy together with a higher-order convex bending energy. Focusing on thin sheets, we expand the minimum of the energy in terms of a small thickness ratio $h$, and identify the first two terms of this expansion. The leading-order term arises from the minimization of a family of one-dimensional relaxed problems, while for the next-order term we establish lower and upper bounds. This generalizes the previous work [P. Bella and R.V. Kohn. Wrikling of a thin circular sheet bonded to a spherical substrate, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 375(2017). arXiv:1611.01781] to the physically relevant case of a liquid substrate.
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spellingShingle Wrinkling of an elastic sheet floating on a liquid sphere
Bella, Peter
Román, Carlos
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
A thin circular elastic sheet floating on a drop-like liquid substrate is deformed due to incompatibility between the curved substrate and the planar sheet. We adopt a variational viewpoint by minimizing the non-convex membrane energy together with a higher-order convex bending energy. Focusing on thin sheets, we expand the minimum of the energy in terms of a small thickness ratio $h$, and identify the first two terms of this expansion. The leading-order term arises from the minimization of a family of one-dimensional relaxed problems, while for the next-order term we establish lower and upper bounds. This generalizes the previous work [P. Bella and R.V. Kohn. Wrikling of a thin circular sheet bonded to a spherical substrate, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 375(2017). arXiv:1611.01781] to the physically relevant case of a liquid substrate.
title Wrinkling of an elastic sheet floating on a liquid sphere
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15504