Research Announcement: Finite-time Blow Up and Long-wave Unstable Thin Film Equations

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Authors: Marina Chugunova, M. C. Pugh, Roman M. Taranets 

Publication date: 2 August 2010

Abstract: We study short--time existence, long--time existence, finite speed of propagation, and finite--time blow--up of nonnegative solutions for long-wave unstable thin film equations $h_t=-a_0(h^n{h}_{xxx}{)}_x-a_1(h^m{h}_x{)}_x$ with $n>0$, $a_0>0$, and $a_1>0$. The existence and finite speed of propagation results extend those of [Comm Pure Appl Math 51:625--661, 1998]. For $0<n<2$ we prove the existence of a nonnegative, compactly--supported, strong solution on the line that blows up in finite time. The construction requires that the initial data be nonnegative, compactly supported in $R^1$, be in $H^1(R^1)$, and have negative energy. The blow-up is proven for a large range of $(n,m)$ exponents and extends the results of [Indiana Univ Math J 49:1323--1366, 2000].

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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