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Weak solutions to lubrication systems describing the evolution of bilayer thin films

Analysis of PDEs 2012-11-12 v1

Abstract

The existence of global nonnegative weak solutions is proved for coupled one-dimensional lubrication systems that describe the evolution of nanoscopic bilayer thin polymer films that take account of Navier-slip or no-slip conditions at both liquid-liquid and liquid-solid interfaces. In addition, in the presence of attractive van der Waals and repulsive Born intermolecular interactions existence of positive smooth solutions is shown.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2216,
  title  = {Weak solutions to lubrication systems describing the evolution of bilayer thin films},
  author = {Sebastian Jachalski and Georgy Kitavtsev and Roman Taranets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2216},
  year   = {2012}
}