The question of the behavior of the droplet in an electric field is a feed-back
problem. The droplet shape determines the ponderomotoric force density p e
caused by the electric field, and thus the electric field changes the equilibrium
of forces at the droplet surface and influences the droplet shape. The mechanical
sub-problem of the droplet shape and the electric sub-problem of finding
p e are decoupled via an iteration in Sect 2. After evolving both sub-problems
stationary 3D and 2D results are given in Sect5. The problem is extended
to non-stationary droplets in inhomogeneous electric fields in Sect6.