Stationary solutions of liquid two-layer thin-film models

DOI10.1137/120886613zbMATH Open1350.76005arXiv1210.5842OpenAlexW1975305237MaRDI 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)

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 $h_{*}$. 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.

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

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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)

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