Asymptotic behaviour of Stokes flow in a thin domain with amoving rough boundary

Abstract

We consider a problem that models fluid flow in a thin domain bounded by two surfaces. One of the surfaces is rough and moving, whereas the other is flat and stationary. The problem involves two small parameters ε and μ that describe film thickness and roughness wavelength, respectively. Depending on the ratio λ = ε/μ, three different flow regimes are obtained in the limit as both of them tend to zero. Time-dependent equations of Reynolds type are obtained in all three cases (Stokes roughness, Reynolds roughness and high-frequency roughness regime). The derivations of the limiting equations are based on formal expansions in the parameters ε and μ. © 2014 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.