The Cox–Voinov law for traveling waves in the partial wetting regime*

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AC6373zbMATH Open1495.35068arXiv2107.01974OpenAlexW4283640510MaRDI QIDQ5087188FDOQ5087188

Manuel V. Gnann, Anouk C. Wisse

Publication date: 8 July 2022

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the thin-film equation $partia{l}_{t}h+partia{l}_{y}left(m(h)partia{l}_y^{3}hight)=0$ in $h>0$ with partial-wetting boundary conditions and inhomogeneous mobility of the form $m(h)=h^3+lambd{a}^{3-n}{h}^n$, where $hge0$ is the film height, $lambda>0$ is the slip length, $y>0$ denotes the lateral variable, and $nin(0,3)$ is the mobility exponent parameterizing the nonlinear slip condition. The partial-wetting regime implies the boundary condition $partia{l}_{y}h=mathrmconst.>0$ at the triple junction $partialh>0$ (nonzero microscopic contact angle). Existence and uniqueness of traveling-wave solutions to this problem under the constraint $partia{l}_y^{2}ho0$ as $hoinfty$ have been proved in previous work by Chiricotto and Giacomelli in [Commun. Appl. Ind. Math., 2(2):e-388, 16, 2011]. We are interested in the asymptotics as $hdownarrow0$ and $hoinfty$. By reformulating the problem as $hdownarrow0$ as a dynamical system for the difference between the solution and the microscopic contact angle, values for $n$ are found for which linear as well as nonlinear resonances occur. These resonances lead to a different asymptotic behavior of the solution as $hdownarrow0$ depending on $n$. Together with the asymptotics as $hoinfty$ characterizing the Cox-Voinov law for the velocity-dependent macroscopic contact angle as found by Giacomelli, the first author of this work, and Otto in [Nonlinearity, 29(9):2497-2536, 2016], the rigorous asymptotics of traveling-wave solutions to the thin-film equation in partial wetting can be characterized. Furthermore, our approach enables us to analyze the relation between the microscopic and macroscopic contact angle. It is found that the Cox-Voinov law for the macroscopic contact angle depends continuously differentiably on the microscopic contact angle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01974

zbMATH Keywords

invariant manifoldstransversalitytraveling waveslubrication approximationrigorous asymptoticsviscous thin films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Invariant manifold theory for dynamical systems (37D10) Lubrication theory (76D08)

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