TY - JOUR T1 - Existence of Physical Solutions to the Boundary Value Problem of an Equation in Modeling Oil Film Spreading Over a Solid Surface JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 335 EP - 346 PY - 1998 DA - 1998/11 SN - 11 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5574.html KW - Existence KW - physical solution KW - oil film AB - A boundary vaJue problem to a fourth order nonlinear degeneraw para-holic equation arising in modeling oil film spreading over a solid surface is studied in the present paper. Basing on the consideration of physical phenomenon describrd by the original model, the authors forcus mainly on the case of two-dimensional space. The existence of nonnegative and radial solutions is established for nonnegative initial datum.