@Article{JPDE-23-1, author = {}, title = {Traveling Waves and Capillarity Driven Spreading of Shear-thinning Fluids}, journal = {Journal of Partial Differential Equations}, year = {2010}, volume = {23}, number = {1}, pages = {33--67}, abstract = {

We study capillary spreadings of thin films of liquids of power-law rheology. These satisfy u_t+(u^{λ+2}|u_{xxx}^{λ-1}u_{xxx})_x=0, where u(x,t) represents the thickness of the one-dimensional liquid and λ > 1. We look for traveling wave solutions so that u(x,t)=g(x+ct) and thus g satisfies g'''=\frac{|g-ε|^\frac1λ}{g^{1+\frac2λ}}sgn(g-ε). We show that for each ε > 0 there is an infinitely oscillating solution, g_ε, such that lim_{t→∞}g_ε=ε and that g_ε→g_0 as ε→ 0, where g_0 ≡ 0 for t ≥ 0 and g_0=c_λ|t|^{\frac{3λ}{2λ+1}} for t < 0  for some constant c_λ.

}, issn = {2079-732X}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/jpde.v23.n1.3}, url = {https://global-sci.com/article/88388/traveling-waves-and-capillarity-driven-spreading-of-shear-thinning-fluids} }