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We study the steady states and dynamics of a thin film-type equation with non-conserved mass in one dimension. The evolution equation is a nonlinear fourth-order degenerate parabolic PDE motivated by a model of volatile viscous fluid films…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hangjie Ji , Thomas P. Witelski

The thin-film equation $\partial_t u = -\nabla \cdot (u^n \nabla \Delta u)$ describes the evolution of the height $u=u(x,t)\geq 0$ of a viscous thin liquid film spreading on a flat solid surface. We prove H\"older continuity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Federico Cornalba , Julian Fischer , Erika Maringová Kokavcová

Motivated by models for thin films coating cylinders in two physical cases proposed by V.I. Kerchman and A.L. Frenkel, we analyze the dynamics of corresponding thin film models. The models are governed by nonlinear, fourth-order,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Jeremy L. Marzuola , Sterling Swygert , Roman Taranets

We prove the self-improving property of very weak solutions to non-uniformly elliptic problems of double phase type in divergence form under sharp assumptions on the nonlinearity.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Sumiya Baasandorj , Sun-Sig Byun , Wontae Kim

A class of stochastic parabolic equations with singular potentials is analysed in the chaos expansion setting where the Wick product is used to give sense to the product of generalized stochastic processes. For the analysis of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Snežana Gordić , Tijana Levajković , Ljubica Oparnica

In the present work, we study well-posedness and regularity of the multidimensional thin film equation with linear mobility in a neighborhood of the self-similar Smyth--Hill solutions. To be more specific, we perform a von Mises change of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Christian Seis

Using the method of Nehari manifold, we prove the existence of at least two distinct weak solutions to elliptic equation of four order with singulatities and with critical Sobolev growth.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Mohammed Benalili , Kamel Tahri

Existence, regularity and location of solutions to quasilinear singular elliptic systems with general gradient dependence are established developing a method of sub-supersolution. The abstract theorems involving sub-supersolutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Abdelkrim Moussaoui

Finite time extinction of any bounded solution to the fast diffusion equation with spatially inhomogeneous absorption $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,\infty), $$ with $N\geq1$ and exponents $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Diana-Rodica Munteanu

Fundamental global similarity solutions of the tenth-order thin film equation u_{t} = \nabla \cdot(|u|^{n} \n \D^4 u) in R^N \times R_+, where n>0 are studied. The main approach consists in passing to the limit n \to 0^+ by using Hermitian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Pablo Alvarez-Caudevilla , Jonathan D. Evans , Victor A. Galaktionov

We study the local behavior of weak solutions, with possible singularities, of nonlocal nonlinear equations. We first prove that sets of capacity zero are removable for weak solutions under certain integrability conditions. We then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Minhyun Kim , Se-Chan Lee

We study the gradient-flow structure of a non-Newtonian thin film equation with power-law rheology. The equation is quasilinear, of fourth order and doubly-degenerate parabolic. By adding a singular potential to the natural Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Peter Gladbach , Jonas Jansen , Christina Lienstromberg

It is shown that a Riemann-type problem with discontinuous data of sign-type for the thin film equation, which degenerates at +1 and -1, admits a self-similar solution. Both FBP and the Cauchy problem (oscillatory solutions near interfaces)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-27 V. A. Galaktionov

We study existence results for a fourth order problem describing single-component film models assuming initial data in Wiener spaces.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Martina Magliocca

We consider the hyperbolic-parabolic singular perturbation problem for a degenerate quasilinear Kirchhoff equation with weak dissipation. This means that the coefficient of the dissipative term tends to zero when t tends to +infinity. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino

The present paper is concerned with the analysis of two strongly coupled systems of degenerate parabolic partial differential equations arising in multiphase thin film flows. In particular, we consider the two-phase thin film Muskat problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Gabriele Bruell , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

We study the weak solvability of a nonlinearly coupled system of parabolic and pseudo-parabolic equations describing the interplay between mechanics, chemical reactions, diffusion and flow in a mixture theory framework. Our approach relies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Arthur J. Vromans , A. A. F. van de Ven , Adrian Muntean

The large time behavior of solutions to Cauchy problem for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation is classified. The large time asymptotics are given by very singular self-similar solutions on one hand and by self-similar viscosity solutions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Said Benachour , Grzegorz Karch , Philippe Laurençot

Qualitative properties of non-negative solutions to a quasilinear degenerate parabolic equation with an absorption term depending solely on the gradient are shown, providing information on the competition between the nonlinear diffusion and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-13 Jean-Philippe Bartier , Philippe Laurençot

We prove global existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a degenerate parabolic system which models the interaction of two thin fluid films in a porous medium. Furthermore, we show that these weak solutions converge at an exponential rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-31 Joachim Escher , Philippe Laurencot , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc