A tangent-plane marker-particle method for the computation of three-dimensional solid surfaces evolving by surface diffusion on a substrate

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.013zbMath1253.74057MaRDI QIDQ2655672

Harris Wong, Mikhail Khenner, Ping Du

Publication date: 25 January 2010

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.013

zbMATH Keywords

surface diffusion; nonlinear PDEs; stability of solutions; contact lines; surface shape; marker-particle methods; thin solid films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74M25: Micromechanics of solids

74K35: Thin films

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

65M75: Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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