On a certain lubrication slip model (Q2368444)

The authors consider the following normalized second-order slip Reynolds equation \[ \nabla\left[\left(H^3P+6KH^2+6K^2\frac HP\right) \nabla P\right]= \Lambda\cdot\nabla(PH),\tag{1} \] where the air bearing normalized pressure \(P=P(x)\) is the unknown of the problem, \(H=H(x)\) is a given function describing the normalized film thickness between the head and magnetic disk, \(K>0\) is the so-called Knudsen number, \(\Omega\in\mathbb R^2\) is a domain and \(\Lambda\) is a bearing vector. The authors prove an existence result with different hypotheses on the data, and they also prove the uniqueness of solution using some monotonicity arguments.