Non-Newtonian two-phase thin-film problem: local existence, uniqueness, and stability

DOI10.1080/03605302.2021.1957929zbMATH Open1484.76014arXiv2101.12243OpenAlexW3195294002MaRDI QIDQ5037293FDOQ5037293

Authors: Oliver Assenmacher, Gabriele Bruell, Christina Lienstromberg 

Publication date: 28 February 2022

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the flow of two immiscible fluids located on a solid bottom, where the lower fluid is Newtonian and the upper fluid is a non-Newtonian Ellis fluid. Neglecting gravitational effects, we consider the formal asymptotic limit of small film heights in the two-phase Navier--Stokes system. This leads to a strongly coupled system of two parabolic equations of fourth order with merely H"older-continuous dependence on the coefficients. For the case of strictly positive initial film heights we prove local existence of strong solutions by abstract semigroup theory. Uniqueness is proved by energy methods. Under additional regularity assumptions, we investigate asymptotic stability of the unique equilibrium solution, which is given by constant film heights.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12243

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zbMATH Keywords

local existencestrong solutiontwo-phase flowuniquenesslong-time asymptoticsdegenerate parabolic systemabstract semigroup theoryEllis lawnon-Newtonian thin-film equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Thin fluid films (76A20) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

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