
Pattern formation, energy landscapes, and scaling laws
Head:
Felix Otto
Contact: Email
Phone:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 950
Secretary:
Katja Heid (née Bieling)
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Phone:
+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 951
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+49 (0) 341 - 9959 - 585
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Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Viscous thin films
- Lorenzo Giacomelli, Manuel Gnann, and Felix Otto.
Regularity of source-type solutions to the thin-film equation with zero contact angle and mobility exponent between 3/2 and 3.
MPI MiS Preprint No. 23/2012
more info and download - Julia Dohmen, Natalie Grunewald, Felix Otto, and Martin Rumpf.
Micro structures in thin coating layers: micro structure evolution and macroscopic contact angle.
In Mathematics-key technology for the future, pages 75-97. Springer, Berlin, 2008. - Lorenzo Giacomelli, Hans Knüpfer, and Felix Otto.
Smooth zero-contact-angle solutions to a thin-film equation around the steady state.
J. Differential Equations, 245(6):1454-1506, 2008.
download (PDF, 364 kbyte) - Antonio DeSimone, Natalie Grunewald, and Felix Otto.
A new model for contact angle hysteresis.
Netw. Heterog. Media, 2(2):211-225 (electronic), 2007. - Felix Otto and Michael Westdickenberg.
Convergence of thin film approximation for a scalar conservation law.
J. Hyperbolic Differ. Equ., 2(1):183-199, 2005. - Lorenzo Giacomelli, Hans Knüpfer, and Felix Otto.
Maximal regularity for a degenerate operator of fourth order.
SFB Preprint, 160, 2004.
download (PDF, 263 kbyte) - Lorenzo Giacomelli and Felix Otto.
Rigorous lubrication approximation.
Interfaces and Free boundaries, 5(4):483-529, 2003.
download (PS, 1731 kbyte) - Lorenzo Giacomelli and Felix Otto.
Droplet spreading: intermediate scaling law by PDE methods.
Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 55(2):217-254, 2002.
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Variational formulation for the lubrication approximation of the Hele-Shaw flow.
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 13(3):377-403, 2001.
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Lubrication approximation with prescribed nonzero contact angle.
Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 23(11-12):2077-2164, 1998.
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Publications
- Micromagnetics
- Superconductors
- Shape Memory Alloys
- Crystal growth
- Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality
- Homogenization
- Fluid dynamics
- Coarsening, Ostwald ripening
- Rheology
- Viscous thin films
- Porous media flow, fingering
- Gradient flow and Wasserstein distance
- Entropy solutions
- Boundary values for scalar conservation laws
- L1-contraction




