Stability of compressive and undercompressive thin film travelling waves

DOI10.1017/S0956792501004466zbMath1028.76012OpenAlexW2062082273MaRDI QIDQ2749114

Kevin Zumbrun, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Michael Shearer, Andreas Münch

Publication date: 27 February 2002

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792501004466

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityEvans functionindexlargest eigenvaluethin filmspectral stabilitycompressive travelling wavesrevised long-wave asymptoticsundercompressive travelling waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Thin fluid films (76A20) Lubrication theory (76D08) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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