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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 consider a diffuse-interface model for two-phase incompressible viscous flows with a soluble surfactant in a bounded porous medium. This hydrodynamic system consists of a Darcy--Forchheimer equation for the seepage velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Maurizio Grasselli , Bohan Ouyang , Andrea Poiatti , Hao Wu

We show existence of global strong solutions with large initial data on the irrotational part for the shallow-water system in dimension $N\geq 2$. We introduce a new notion of \textit{quasi-solutions} when the initial velocity is assumed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Boris Haspot

We consider the Cauchy problem for incompressible viscoelastic fluids in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=2,3$). By introducing a new decomposition via Helmholtz's projections, we first provide an alternative proof on the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Xianpeng Hu , Hao Wu

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model that describes the motion of a two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities and a soluble surfactant in a bounded domain of two or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Bohan Ouyang , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

We investigate the large time behavior of compactly supported solutions for a one-dimensional thin-film equation with linear mobility in the regime of partial wetting. We show the stability of steady state solutions. The proof uses the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Mohamed Majdoub , Nader Masmoudi , Slim Tayachi

We investigate the question of stability of a solid thin film which experiences external interactions such as van der Waals forces from a contacting surface or forces from an external electric field. Both perfectly elastic and viscoelastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Vijay Shenoy , Ashutosh Sharma

This work is devoted to prove existence of global weak solutions for a general isothermal model of capillary fluids derived by J.- E Dunn and J. Serrin (1985) [6], which can be used as a phase transition model. We improve the results of [5]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Boris Haspot

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 cylinder in the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-30 Marina Chugunova , M. C. Pugh , R. M. Taranets

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

A moderately thick spray can be described by a coupled system of equations consisting of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the Vlasov-Boltzmann equation. We investigate this kind of mathematical model in this paper. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Lei Yao , Cheng Yu

We find solutions that describe the levelling of a thin fluid film, comprising a non-Newtonian power-law fluid, that coats a substrate and evolves under the influence of surface tension. We consider the evolution from both periodic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-12 Michael C Dallaston

In any number of space variables, we study the Cauchy problem related to the thin-film equation in the simplest case of a linearly degenerate mobility. This equation, derived from a lubrication approximation, also models the surface tension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Dominik John

In this paper we prove the existence of global weak dissipative martingale solutions for a one-dimensional compressible fluid model with capillarity and density dependent viscosity, driven by random initial data and a stochastic forcing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Donatella Donatelli , Lorenzo Pescatore , Stefano Spirito

Models that describe Newtonian liquid films evolving due to the competing effects of surface tension and attractive intermolecular or van der Waals forces are known to rupture in finite time in a self-similar manner. We extend the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Michael C Dallaston , Steven A Kedda , Scott W McCue

We prove the existence of a weak solution to the equations describing the inertial motions of a coupled system constituted by a rigid body containing a viscous compressible fluid. We then provide a weak-strong uniqueness result that allows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Giovanni Paolo Galdi , Václav Mácha , Šárka Nečasová

We address the system of partial differential equations modeling motion of an elastic body interacting with an incompressible fluid. The fluid is modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations while the structure is represented by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Igor Kukavica , Wojciech S. Ożański

We prove the global existence of weak solutions to the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with ripped density in the half-plane under a slip boundary condition provided the bulk viscosity coefficient is properly large.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Shuai Wang , Guochun Wu , Xin Zhong

In this work we will focus on the existence of weak solutions for a system describing a general compressible viscous fluid in the case of the pressure being a linear function of the density and the viscous stress tensor being a non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Danica Basarić

In this paper, we study the global existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a class of weakly dissipative nonlinear dispersive wave equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yiyao Lian , Zhenyu Wan , Zhaoyang Yin