Weak solutions to a thin film model with capillary effects and insoluble surfactant

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/25/9/2423zbMATH Open1387.76009arXiv1109.6762OpenAlexW1966725251MaRDI QIDQ2918656FDOQ2918656

Joachim Escher, Matthieu Hillairet, Christoph Walker, Philippe Laurençot

Publication date: 10 October 2012

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper focuses on a model describing the spreading of an insoluble surfactant on a thin viscous film with capillary effects taken into account. The governing equation for the film height is degenerate parabolic of fourth order and coupled to a second order parabolic equation for the surfactant concentration. It is shown that nonnegative weak solutions exist under natural assumptions on the surface tension coefficient.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6762

zbMATH Keywords

existencesurfactant concentrationdegenrate parabolic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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• Simple waves and shocks in a thin film of a perfectly soluble anti-surfactant solution
• Weak solutions to a two-phase thin film model with insoluble surfactant driven by capillary effects

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