Finite time rupture for thin films under van der Waals forces

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/20/2/004zbMath1122.35107OpenAlexW1977124210MaRDI QIDQ5296479

Ying-Chuen Kwong, Kai-Seng Chou

Publication date: 1 August 2007

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/20/2/004

zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionlubrication approximationthermocapillary forcesvan der Waals molecular forces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Thin fluid films (76A20) Lubrication theory (76D08)

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