Linear stability of a ridge
Authors
- King, John R.
- Münch, Andreas
- Wagner, Barbara
ORCID: 0000-0001-8306-3645
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 76A20 76D27 76M45 34B15 65M06
Keywords
- Lubrication theory, numerics, asymptotic approximation, sharp interface
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Abstract
We investigate the stability of the three-phase contact-line of a thin liquid ridge on a hydrophobic substrate for flow driven by surface tension and van der Waals forces. We study the role of slippage in the emerging instability at the three-phase contact-line by comparing the lubrication models for no-slip and slip-dominated conditions at the liquid/substrate interface. For both cases we derive a sharp-interface model via matched asymptotic expansions and derive the eigenvalues from a linear stability analysis of the respective reduced models. We compare our asymptotic results with the eigenvalues obtained numerically for the full lubrication models.
Appeared in
- Nonlinearity, 19 (2006) pp. 2813-2831.
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