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Electrified thin films: Global existence of non-negative solutions

Analysis of PDEs 2012-07-03 v4

Abstract

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 non-local term. We introduce the good functional analysis framework to study this equation on a bounded domain and prove the existence of weak solutions defined globally in time for general initial data (with finite energy).

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@article{arxiv.1102.0949,
  title  = {Electrified thin films: Global existence of non-negative solutions},
  author = {Cyril Imbert and Antoine Mellet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0949},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

To appear in Annales de l'IHP, analyse non-lin\'eaire. Minor modifications after reading proofs

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