Finite speed of propagation for the thin-film equation in spherical geometry

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Abstract: We show that a double degenerate thin film equation, which originated from modeling of viscous coating flow on a spherical surface, has finite speed of propagation for nonnegative strong solutions and hence there exists an interface or free boundary separating the regions where solution u>0 and u=0. Using local entropy estimates we also obtain an upper bound for the rate of the interface propagation.












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