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This paper is concerned with the weak solution for the fast diffusion equation with absorption and singularity in the form of $u_t=\triangle u^m -u^p$. We first prove the existence and decay estimate of weak solution when the fast diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Changping Xie , Shaomei Fang , Ming Mei , Yuming Qin

Recently, many existence results for the stochastic thin-film equation were established in the case of a quadratic mobility exponent $n=2$, in which the noise term $\partial_x(u^\frac{n}{2}\mathcal{W})$ becomes linear. In the case of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Max Sauerbrey

We prove existence of martingale solutions to a class of stochastic thin-film equations for mobility exponents $n \in (2,3)$ and compactly supported initial data. With the perspective to study free-boundary problems related to stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Günther Grün , Lorenz Klein

We study a one-dimensional thin film equation combining competitive effects of aggregation and repulsion, where repulsion is modeled by fourth-order diffusion and aggregation by backward second-order degenerate diffusion with exponent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Shen Bian

It has been experimentally observed that weakly conducting suspended films of smectic liquid crystals undergo electroconvection when subjected to a large enough potential difference. The resulting counter-rotating vortices form a very…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 V. B. Deyirmenjian , Zahir A. Daya , Stephen W. Morris

For mobility exponents $n \in (2,3)$, we prove existence of strictly positive solutions to stochastic thin-film equations with singular effective interface potential and Stratonovich-type lower-order terms. With the perspective of using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Günther Grün , Lorenz Klein

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of strong solutions to a family of nonlinear fourth-order evolution equations on the real line, with particular focus on the thin-film equation $\partial_tu = -(uu_{xxx})_x$. The method builds…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Mario Bukal

In this paper we derive consistent shallow water equations for thin films of power law fluids down an incline. These models account for the streamwise diffusion of momentum which is important to describe accurately the full dynamic of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pascal Noble , Jean Paul Vila

In this technical report, we consider a nonlinear 4th-order degenerate parabolic partial differential equation that arises in modelling the dynamics of an incompressible thin liquid film on the outer surface of a rotating horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Marina Chugunova , M. C. Pugh , R. M. Taranets

We consider an equation modeling the evolution of a viscous liquid thin film wetting a horizontal solid substrate destabilized by an electric field normal to the substrate. The effects of the electric field are modeled by a lower order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Cyril Imbert , Antoine Mellet

We study phase separation in thin films using the Navier--Stokes Cahn--Hilliard equations in the lubrication approximation, modeling substrate-film interactions with a van der Waals potential. We investigate the thin-film equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-12 Lennon O Naraigh , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We consider following fourth-order parabolic equation with gradient nonlinearity on the two-dimensional torus with and without advection of an incompressible vector field in the case $2<p<3$: \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + (-\Delta)^2 u =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Yu Feng , Bingyang Hu , Xiaoqian Xu

We will extend a recent result of B.Choi, P.Daskalopoulos and J.King. For any $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n+2}$ and $\gamma>0$, we will construct subsolutions and supersolutions of the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\frac{n-1}{m}\Delta u^m$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Shu-Yu Hsu

We present a computational investigation of thin viscoelastic films and drops on a solid substrate subject to the van der Waals interaction force, in two spatial dimensions. The governing equations are obtained within a long-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-11 Valeria Barra , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic

We consider a two-dimensional motion of a thin film flowing down an inclined plane under the influence of the gravity and the surface tension. In order to investigate the stability of such flow, it is hard to treat the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Hiroki Ueno , Akinori Shiraishi , Tatsuo Iguchi

We study a porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure: $$ \partial_t u= \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1} \nabla p), \quad p=(-\Delta)^{-s}u, $$ for $m>1$, $0<s<1$ and $u(x,t)\ge 0$. To be specific, the problem is posed for $x\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Diana Stan , Félix del Teso , Juan Luis Vázquez

We study a porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure: $$ \partial_t u= \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1} \nabla p), \quad p=(-\Delta)^{-s}u, $$ for $m>1$, $0<s<1$ and $u(x,t)\ge 0$. The problem is posed for $x\in \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Diana Stan , Félix del Teso , Juan Luis Vázquez

In this work, we study a fourth order exponential equation, $u_t=\Delta e^{-\Delta u},$ derived from thin film growth on crystal surface in multiple space dimensions. We use the gradient flow method in metric space to characterize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu , Xin Yang Lu

This paper deals with a nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation of order $\alpha$ between 2 and 4 which is a kind of fractional version of the Thin Film Equation. Actually, this one corresponds to the limit value $\alpha=4$ while the Porous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Antonio Segatti , Juan Luis Vázquez

The shallow water equations describing the motion of thin liquid film on the rotating cylinder surface are obtained. These equations are the analog of the modified Boussinesq equations for shallow water and the Korteweg-de Vries equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 M. Yu. Zhukov , A. M. Morad