Effective and microscopic contact angles in thin film dynamics

DOI10.1017/S0956792599004015zbMath0965.35125MaRDI QIDQ4488767

Lorenzo Giacomelli, Stephen H. Davis, Roberta Dal Passo, Michiel Bertsch

Publication date: 22 July 2001

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

zbMATH Keywords

self-similar solutionthin film equationeffective contact anglemicroscopic contact angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

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