SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Guozheng Yan
2018 ◽  
Vol 838 ◽  
pp. 404-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Zheng ◽  
Marco A. Fontelos ◽  
Sangwoo Shin ◽  
Michael C. Dallaston ◽  
Dmitri Tseluiko ◽  
...  

Consider the dynamics of a healing film driven by surface tension, that is, the inward spreading process of a liquid film to fill a hole. The film is modelled using the lubrication (or thin-film) approximation, which results in a fourth-order nonlinear partial differential equation. We obtain a self-similar solution describing the early-time relaxation of an initial step-function condition and a family of self-similar solutions governing the finite-time healing. The similarity exponent of this family of solutions is not determined purely from scaling arguments; instead, the scaling exponent is a function of the finite thickness of the prewetting film, which we determine numerically. Thus, the solutions that govern the finite-time healing are self-similar solutions of the second kind. Laboratory experiments and time-dependent computations of the partial differential equation are also performed. We compare the self-similar profiles and exponents, obtained by matching the estimated prewetting film thickness, with both measurements in experiments and time-dependent computations near the healing time, and we observe good agreement in each case.


Author(s):  
Ram Dayal Pankaj ◽  
Arun Kumar ◽  
Chandrawati Sindhi

The Ritz variational method has been applied to the nonlinear partial differential equation to construct a model for travelling wave solution. The spatially periodic trial function was chosen in the form of combination of Jacobian Elliptic functions, with the dependence of its parameters


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (04) ◽  
pp. 407-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Beauregard ◽  
Qin Sheng

AbstractFinite difference computations that involve spatial adaptation commonly employ an equidistribution principle. In these cases, a new mesh is constructed such that a given monitor function is equidistributed in some sense. Typical choices of the monitor function involve the solution or one of its many derivatives. This straightforward concept has proven to be extremely effective and practical. However, selections of core monitoring functions are often challenging and crucial to the computational success. This paper concerns six different designs of the monitoring function that targets a highly nonlinear partial differential equation that exhibits both quenching-type and degeneracy singularities. While the first four monitoring strategies are within the so-calledprimitiveregime, the rest belong to a later category of themodifiedtype, which requires the priori knowledge of certain important quenching solution characteristics. Simulated examples are given to illustrate our study and conclusions.


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