Global Well-Posedness of Contact Lines: 2D Navier-Stokes Flow

TL;DR

This paper proves the well-posedness of a 2D viscous fluid model with contact line dynamics, using energy estimates and a Galerkin approximation, extending previous a priori estimates.

Contribution

It establishes the global well-posedness of a contact line fluid model in 2D, building on recent a priori estimates and constructing pressureless weak solutions.

Findings

Proved well-posedness of the contact line model in 2D.

Constructed pressureless weak solutions for linearized problems.

Utilized Galerkin approximation with time-dependent basis and regularization.

Abstract

Based on the global a priori estimates in [Guo-Tice, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2024)], we establish the well-posedness of a viscous fluid model satisfying the dynamic law for the contact line \begin{equation*} \mathscr{W}(\p_t\zeta(\pm\ell,t))=[\![\gamma]\!]\mp\sigma\frac{\p_1\zeta}{(1+|\p_1\zeta|^2)^{1/2}}(\pm\ell,t) \end{equation*} in 2D domain, where $\zeta(x_1,t)$ is a free surface with two contact points $\zeta(\pm\ell,t)$, $[\![\gamma]\!]$ and $\sigma$ are constants characterizing the solid-fluid-gas free energy, and the increasing $\mathscr{W}$ is the contact point velocity response function. Motivated by the energy-dissipation structure, our construction relies on the construction of a pressureless weak solution for the coupled velocity and free interface for the linearized problems, via a Galerkin approximation with a time-dependent basis and an artificial regularization for the capillary operator.