Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Seminar on partial differential equations

takes place each Tuesday at 09:00
in IM, rear building, ground floor
with the following program:

Karoline Götze
( Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin )
Some results for the motion of a rigid body with a liquid-filled cavity
Abstract:
We consider a rigid body moving in a vacuum which has a liquid-filled cavity. This may roughly apply, for example, to satellites in orbit or to the motion of planet earth. It is interesting from a mathematical point of view to study the asymptotics of the problem, as it combines rigid body and fluid dynamics. We obtained some preliminary results. (Joint work with Paolo Galdi and Giusy Mazzone, University of Pittsburgh)