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Bounded traveling waves for a thin film with gravity and insoluble surfactant

Analysis of PDEs 2014-01-15 v1

Abstract

Lubrication equations for a surfactant-driven flow of a thin layer of fluid are considered with a singular surfactant-dependent surface tension. It is shown that there exists a bounded traveling wave solution which connects a fully surfactant-coated film to an uncoated film. The regularity of the traveling wave depends on whether or not surface diffusion of the insoluble surfactant is included.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3300,
  title  = {Bounded traveling waves for a thin film with gravity and insoluble surfactant},
  author = {Joachim Escher and Matthieu Hillairet and Philippe Laurencot and Christoph Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3300},
  year   = {2014}
}