TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of disjoining pressure in a thin film equation with non-uniform forcing
AU - MOULTON, D. E.
AU - LEGA, J.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-C1-013-04
Acknowledgements: This paper is based on work supported by Award No. KUK-C1-013-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (author DEM). We also thank the reviewers for their helpful comments.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2013/8/2
Y1 - 2013/8/2
N2 - We explore the effect of disjoining pressure on a thin film equation in the presence of a non-uniform body force, motivated by a model describing the reverse draining of a magnetic film. To this end, we use a combination of numerical investigations and analytical considerations. The disjoining pressure has a regularizing influence on the evolution of the system and appears to select a single steady-state solution for fixed height boundary conditions; this is in contrast with the existence of a continuum of locally attracting solutions that exist in the absence of disjoining pressure for the same boundary conditions. We numerically implement matched asymptotic expansions to construct equilibrium solutions and also investigate how they behave as the disjoining pressure is sent to zero. Finally, we consider the effect of the competition between forcing and disjoining pressure on the coarsening dynamics of the thin film for fixed contact angle boundary conditions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013.
AB - We explore the effect of disjoining pressure on a thin film equation in the presence of a non-uniform body force, motivated by a model describing the reverse draining of a magnetic film. To this end, we use a combination of numerical investigations and analytical considerations. The disjoining pressure has a regularizing influence on the evolution of the system and appears to select a single steady-state solution for fixed height boundary conditions; this is in contrast with the existence of a continuum of locally attracting solutions that exist in the absence of disjoining pressure for the same boundary conditions. We numerically implement matched asymptotic expansions to construct equilibrium solutions and also investigate how they behave as the disjoining pressure is sent to zero. Finally, we consider the effect of the competition between forcing and disjoining pressure on the coarsening dynamics of the thin film for fixed contact angle boundary conditions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/598051
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0956792513000235/type/journal_article
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893038861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0956792513000235
DO - 10.1017/S0956792513000235
M3 - Article
SN - 0956-7925
VL - 24
SP - 887
EP - 920
JO - European Journal of Applied Mathematics
JF - European Journal of Applied Mathematics
IS - 6
ER -