Well-posedness for the Navier-slip thin-film equation in the case of complete wetting

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-81

  Giacomelli, Lorenzo ^a   Gnann, Manuel V ^b   Knüpfer, Hans ^c   Otto, Felix ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate parabolic fourth order equations; Free boundary problems; Lubrication theory; Nonlinear parabolic equations; Parabolic maximal regularity; Thin film equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899620635     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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