New dissipated energy for the unstable thin film equation

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2011.10.613MaRDI QIDQ651986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marina Chugunova, Roman M. Taranets

Publication date 19 December 2011

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3741

zbMATH Keywords

energyentropyfourth-order degenerate parabolic equationsthin liquid films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Lubrication theory (76D08)

Abstract: The fluid thin film equation $h_t=-(h^n{h}_{xxx}{)}_x-a_1,(h^m{h}_x{)}_x$ is known to conserve mass $int,h,dx$, and in the case of $a_{1}leq0$, to dissipate entropy $int,h^{3/2-n},dx$ (see [8]) and the $L^2$-norm of the gradient $int,h_x^2,dx$ (see [3]). For the special case of $a_1=0$ a new dissipated quantity $int,h^{alpha},h_x^2,dx$ was recently discovered for positive classical solutions by Laugesen (see [15]). We extend it in two ways. First, we prove that Laugesen's functional dissipates strong nonnegative generalized solutions. Second, we prove the full $alpha$-energy $$ dissipation for strong nonnegative generalized solutions in the case of the unstable porous media perturbation $a_1>0$ and the critical exponent $m=n+2$.

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