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The large time behavior of non-negative weak solutions to a thin film approximation of the two-phase Muskat problem is studied. A classification of self-similar solutions is first provided: there is always a unique even self-similar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Philippe Laurencot , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study steady-state thin films on a chemically heterogeneous substrates of finite size, subject to no-flux boundary conditions. Based on the structure of the bifurcation diagram, we classify the one-dimensional steady-state solutions that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 Weifan Liu , Thomas P. Witelski

We consider a free surface thin film placed on a thermally conductive substrate and exposed to an external heat source in a setup where the heat absorption depends on the local film thickness. Our focus is on modeling film evolution while…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ryan H. Allaire , Linda J. Cummings , Lou Kondic

In this paper we consider a stochastic thin-film equation with a one dimensional Gaussian Stratonovych noise. We establish the existence of non-negative global weak martingale solution, and study its long time asymptotic properties. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Oleksiy Kapustyan , Olha Martynyuk , Oleksandr Misiats , Oleksandr Stanzhytskyi

We consider two thin layers of immiscible liquids on a heated solid horizontal substrate. The free liquid-liquid and liquid-gas interfaces of such a two-layer (or bilayer) liquid film may be unstable due to effective molecular interactions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Pototsky , Michael Bestehorn , Domnic Merkt , Uwe Thiele

Thin film rupture is a type of nonlinear instability that causes the solution to touch down to zero at finite time. We investigate the finite-time rupture behavior of a generalized elastohydrodynamic lubrication model. This model features…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 William Chang , Hanjie Ji

The stationary state solutions of the Ising-type thin films with different layers in the presence of an external oscillatory field have been examined within the effective field theory. The exhibition focuses on understanding of the external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Bahadır Ozan Aktaş , Ümit Akıncı , Hamza Polat

It is frequent for active or living entities to find themselves embedded in a surrounding medium. Resulting composite systems are usually classified as either active fluids or active solids. Yet, in reality, particularly in the biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Henning Reinken , Andreas M. Menzel

We introduce a class of thin-film equations with space-time dependent gradient nonlinearity and apply them to image sharpening. By modifying the potential well method, we overcome the challenges arising from variable exponents and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yuhang Li , Zhichang Guo , Fanghui Song , Boying Wu , Bin Guo

We examine the dynamics of a thin film formed by a distributed liquid source on a vertical solid wall. The model is derived using the lubrication approximation and includes the effects of gravity, upward airflow and surface tension. When…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yadong Ruan , Ali Nadim , Marina Chugunova

Free boundaries of biofilms advancing on surfaces evolve according to conservation laws coupled with systems of partial differential equations for velocities, pressures and chemicals affecting cell behavior. Thin film approximations lead to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Ana Carpio , Gema Duro

This paper is concerned with a compressible MHD equations describing the evolution of viscous non-resistive fluids in piecewise regular bounded Lipschitz domains. Under the general inflow-outflow boundary conditions, we prove existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Yang Li , Young-Sam Kwon , Yongzhong Sun

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

We discuss a notion of weak solution for a semilinear wave equation that models the interaction of an elastic body with a rigid substrate through an adhesive layer, relying on results in [2]. Our analysis embraces the vector-valued case in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le

Wavy film flow of incompressible Newtonian fluid down an inclined plane is considered. The question is posed as to the parametric conditions under which the description of evolution can be approximately reduced for all time to a single…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Frenkel , Keshavamurthy Indireshkumar

We consider several rigid bodies immersed in a viscous Newtonian fluid contained in a bounded domain in $R^3$. We introduce a new concept of dissipative weak solution of the problem based on a combination of the approach proposed by Judakov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Marco Bravin , Eduard Feireisl , Arnab Roy , Arghir Zarnescu

This paper presents an analytical investigation of the solutions to a control volume model for liquid films flowing down a vertical fibre. The evolution of the free surface is governed by a coupled system of degenerate nonlinear partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Roman M. Taranets , Hangjie Ji , Marina Chugunova

In the present contribution we review basic mathematical results for three physical systems involving self-organising solid or liquid films at solid surfaces. The films may undergo a structuring process by dewetting,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-15 Uwe Thiele

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

The existence of global weak solutions is proved for one-dimensional lubrication models that describe the dewetting process of nanoscopic thin polymer films on hydrophobyzed substrates and take account of large slippage at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Georgy Kitavtsev , Philippe Laurencot , Barbara Niethammer