scholarly journals On the number of solutions to Plateau's problem

1976 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Tromba
1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Baruch cahlon ◽  
Alan D. Solomon ◽  
Louis J. Nachman

This paper presents a numerical method for finding the solution of Plateau's problem in parametric form. Using the properties of minimal surfaces we succeded in transferring the problem of finding the minimal surface to a problem of minimizing a functional over a class of scalar functions. A numerical method of minimizing a functional using the first variation is presented and convergence is proven. A numerical example is given.


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