Spreading equilibria under mildly singular potentials: pancakes versus droplets
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Alt-Caffarelli functionalAlt-Phillips functionalasymptotic behaviorattractive-repulsive potentialcomplete wettingdropleteffective contact anglefree boundary problemsinter-molecular potentiallubrication theorymacroscopic contact anglemass constraintpancakepartial wettingprecursorscaling lawsingular minimization problemsingular potentialspreading coefficientthin-film equationuniqueness
Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Existence theories for free problems in one independent variable (49J05) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Thin fluid films (76A20) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Lubrication theory (76D08)
Abstract: We study global minimizers of a functional modeling the free energy of thin liquid layers over a solid substrate under the combined effect of surface, gravitational, and intermolecular potentials. When the latter ones have a mild repulsive singularity at short ranges, global minimizers are compactly supported and display a microscopic contact angle of . Depending on the form of the potential, the macroscopic shape can either be droplet-like or pancake-like, with a transition profile between the two at zero spreading coefficient. These results generalize, complete, and give mathematical rigor to de Gennes' formal discussion of spreading equilibria. Uniqueness and non-uniqueness phenomena are also discussed.
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