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- Contact Angle
- Maximum Principle
- Singular Solution
- Capillary Surface
- Gradient Bound
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Finn, R. (1988). Comparison principles in capillarity. In: Hildebrandt, S., Leis, R. (eds) Partial Differential Equations and Calculus of Variations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0082866
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