On local well-posedness of the thin-film equation via the Wasserstein gradient flow

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0723-ZzbMATH Open1311.49115arXiv1112.4407OpenAlexW2034268214WikidataQ115387394 ScholiaQ115387394MaRDI QIDQ2017809FDOQ2017809

Authors: Ehsan Kamalinejad 

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A relaxed notion of displacement convexity is defined and used to establish short time existence and uniqueness of Wasserstein gradient flows for higher order energy functionals. As an application, local and global well-posedness of different higher order non-linear evolution equations are derived. Examples include the thin-film equation and the quantum drift diffusion equation in one spatial variable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4407

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zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein spacegradient flowlocal well-posednessdisplacement convexitythin-film equationquantum drift diffusion equationone-dimensional Dirichlet energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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