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Strong solutions of the thin film equation in spherical geometry

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-02 v1

Abstract

We study existence and long-time behaviour of strong solutions for the thin film equation using a priori estimates in a weighted Sobolev space. This equation can be classified as a doubly degenerate fourth-order parabolic and it models coating flow on the outer surface of a sphere. It is shown that the strong solution asymptotically decays to the flat profile.

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@article{arxiv.1709.10496,
  title  = {Strong solutions of the thin film equation in spherical geometry},
  author = {Roman M. Taranets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10496},
  year   = {2017}
}