Stationary solutions of liquid two-layer thin-film models

DOI10.1137/120886613zbMATH Open1350.76005OpenAlexW1975305237MaRDI QIDQ2850686FDOQ2850686

Authors S. Jachalski, Georgy Kitavtsev, Dirk Peschka, Barbara Wagner, Robert Huth 

Publication date 30 September 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5842

zbMATH Keywords

gamma-convergencefree boundariesthin filmsmatched asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Thin fluid films (76A20)

Abstract: We investigate stationary solutions of a thin-film model for liquid two-layer flows in an energetic formulation that is motivated by its gradient flow structure. The goal is to achieve a rigorous understanding of the contact-angle conditions for such two-layer systems. We pursue this by investigating a corresponding energy that favors the upper liquid to dewet from the lower liquid substrate, leaving behind a layer of thickness $h_{\ast }$. After proving existence of stationary solutions for the resulting system of thin-film equations we focus on the limit $h_{\ast }o0$ via matched asymptotic analysis. This yields a corresponding sharp-interface model and a matched asymptotic solution that includes logarithmic switch-back terms. We compare this with results obtained using $Gamma$-convergence, where we establish existence and uniqueness of energetic minimizers in that limit.

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