Surfactant spreading on thin viscous films: Nonnegative solutions of a coupled degenerate system

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2025-2048

  Garcke, Harald ^a   Wieland, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerate parabolic equation; Fluid interface; Free surface; Partial differential equations; Surfactant spreading; Thin liquid film

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE PARABOLIC EQUATION; FLUID INTERFACE; FREE SURFACE; SURFACTANT SPREADING; THIN LIQUID FILM;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33751016022     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040617017     Document Type: Article

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