The Laplace pressure is the pressure difference between the inside and the outside of a curved surface that forms the boundary between a gas region and a liquid region. The pressure difference is caused by the surface tension of the interface between liquid and gas.
The Laplace pressure is determined from the Young–Laplace equation given as
where and are the principal radii of curvature and (also denoted as ) is the surface tension. Although signs for these values vary, sign convention usually dictates positive curvature when convex and negative when concave.