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For many coating flows, the profile thickness h, near the front of the coating film, is governed by a third-order ordinary differential equation of the form h‴=% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaaccaGae8NKby% kaaa!37B5!\[f\](h), for some given % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaaccaGae8NKby% kaaa!37B5!\[f\](h). We consider here the case of dry wall coating which allows for slip in the vicinity of the moving contact-line. For this case, one such model equation, due to Greenspan, is % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaaccaGae8NKby% kaaa!37B5!\[f\](h)=−1+(1+α)/(h 2+α), where α is the slip coefficient. The equation is solved using a finite difference scheme, with a contact angle boundary condition prescribed at the moving contact-line. Using the maximum thickness of the profile as the control parameter, we show that there is a direct relationship between the effective Greenspan slip coefficient and the grid-spacing of the numerical scheme used to solve the model equation. In doing so, we show that slip is implicity built into the numerical scheme through the finite grid-spacing. We also show why converged results with finite film thickness cannot be obtained if slip is ignored.
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Moriarty, J.A., Schwartz, L.W. Effective slip in numerical calculations of moving-contact-line problems. J Eng Math 26, 81–86 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00043228
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