Traveling Waves for a Thin Film with Gravity and Insoluble Surfactant
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چکیده
Lubrication equations for a surfactant-driven flow of a thin layer of fluid are considered with a singular surfactant-dependent surface tension. It is shown that there exists a bounded traveling wave solution which connects a fully surfactant-coated film to an uncoated film. The regularity of the traveling wave depends on whether or not surface diffusion of the insoluble surfactant is included.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM J. Applied Dynamical Systems
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015