Simple waves and shocks in a thin film of a perfectly soluble antisurfactant solution

Conn, J. J. A. and Duffy, B. R. and Pritchard, D. and Wilson, S. K. and Sefiane, K. (2017) Simple waves and shocks in a thin film of a perfectly soluble antisurfactant solution. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 107 (1). pp. 167-178. ISSN 0022-0833 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-017-9924-8)

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Abstract

We consider the dynamics of a thin film of a perfectly soluble anti-surfactant solution in the limit of large capillary and Peclet numbers in which the governing system of nonlinear equations is purely hyperbolic. We construct exact solutions to a family of Riemann problems for this system, and discuss the properties of these solutions, including the formation of both simple-wave and uniform regions within the flow, and the propagation of shocks in both the thickness of the film and the gradient of the concentration of solute.

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Conn, J. J. A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1772-1539, Duffy, B. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2687-7938, Pritchard, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-7052, Wilson, S. K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7841-9643 and Sefiane, K.;
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