John W. Barrett,
Linda El Alaoui
(2008)
We consider a system
of degenerate parabolic equations modelling a
thin film, consisting of two layers of immiscible Newtonian liquids, on
a solid horizontal substrate.
In addition, the model includes the presence of insoluble surfactants on
both the free liquid-liquid and liquid-air interfaces,
and the presence of both attractive and repulsive van der Waals forces
in terms of the heights of the two layers.
We show that this system formally satisfies a Lyapunov structure,
and a...