# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February 2018, 38(2): 589-614. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018026

## Bounded and unbounded capillary surfaces derived from the catenoid

 1 KAIST, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea 2 KIAS, School of Mathematics, 87 Hoegi-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Received  April 2017 Revised  August 2017 Published  February 2018

Fund Project: This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of South Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Grant NRF- 2016R1A1A005299

We construct two kinds of capillary surfaces by using a perturbation method. Surfaces of first kind are embedded in a solid ball B of $\mathbb{R}^3$ with assigned mean curvature function and whose boundary curves lie on $\partial B.$ The contact angle along such curves is a non-constant function. Surfaces of second kind are unbounded and embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3 \setminus \tilde B,$ $\tilde B$ being a deformation of a solid ball in $\mathbb{R}^3.$ These surfaces have assigned mean curvature function and one boundary curve on $\partial \tilde B.$ Also in this case the contact angle along the boundary is a non-constant function.

Citation: Filippo Morabito. Bounded and unbounded capillary surfaces derived from the catenoid. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (2) : 589-614. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018026
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##### References:
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