Droplet spreading: Intermediate scaling law by PDE methods

DOI10.1002/cpa.10017zbMath1021.76014OpenAlexW2029214034MaRDI QIDQ4790290

Lorenzo Giacomelli, Felix Otto

Publication date: 28 January 2003

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.10017

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionsnonlinear evolution equationscaling lawlubrication approximationdroplet spreading

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Lubrication theory (76D08) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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