Time integration and steady-state continuation for 2D lubrication equations

DOI10.1137/080718619MaRDI QIDQ3577817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Beltrame, Uwe Thiele

Publication date 26 July 2010

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0014

zbMATH Keywords

continuationdepinningdewettingexponential propagationKrylov reductionlubrication equationtime integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Computational methods for bifurcation problems in dynamical systems (37M20) Thin fluid films (76A20) Lubrication theory (76D08)

Abstract: Lubrication equations allow to describe many structurin processes of thin liquid films. We develop and apply numerical tools suitable for their analysis employing a dynamical systems approach. In particular, we present a time integration algorithm based on exponential propagation and an algorithm for steady-state continuation. In both algorithms a Cayley transform is employed to overcome numerical problems resulting from scale separation in space and time. An adaptive time-step allows to study the dynamics close to hetero- or homoclinic connections. The developed framework is employed on the one hand to analyse different phases of the dewetting of a liquid film on a horizontal homogeneous substrate. On the other hand, we consider the depinning of drops pinned by a wettability defect. Time-stepping and path-following are used in both cases to analyse steady-state solutions and their bifurcations as well as dynamic processes on short and long time-scales. Both examples are treated for two- and three-dimensional physical settings and prove that the developed algorithms are reliable and efficient for 1d and 2d lubrication equations, respectively.

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