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Author: Peschka, Dirk × Subject: gradient flow ×

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    Variational approach to contact line dynamics for thin films
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Peschka, Dirk
    This paper investigates a variational approach to viscous flows with contact line dynamics based on energy-dissipation modeling. The corresponding model is reduced to a thin-film equation and its variational structure is also constructed and discussed. Feasibility of this modeling approach is shown by constructing a numerical scheme in 1D and by computing numerical solutions for the problem of gravity driven droplets. Some implications of the contact line model are highlighted in this setting.
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    Gradient flow perspective of thin-film bilayer flows
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013) Huth, Robert; Jachalski, Sebastian; Kitavtsev, Georgy; Peschka, Dirk
    We study gradient flow formulations of thin-film bilayer flows with triple-junctions between liquid/liquid/air. First we highlight the gradient structure in the Stokes free-boundary flow and identify its solutions with the well-known PDE with boundary conditions. Next we propose a similar gradient formulation for the corresponding thin-film model and formally identify solutions with those of the corresponding free-boundary problem. A robust numerical algorithm for the thin-film gradient flow structure is then provided. Using this algorithm we compare the sharp triple-junction model with precursor models. For their stationary solutions a rigorous connection is established using [Gamma]-convergence. For time-dependentsolutions the comparison of numerical solutions shows a good agreement for small and moderate times. Finally we study spreading in the zero-contact angle case, where we compare numerical solutions with asymptotically exact source-type solutions.