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We consider the thin-film equation $\partial_t h + \partial_y \left(m(h)\partial_y^3 h\right) = 0$ in $\{h > 0\}$ with partial-wetting boundaryconditions and inhomogeneous mobility of the form $m(h) =h^3+\lambda^{3-n}h^n$, where $h \ge 0$ is the film height, $\lambda > 0$ is theslip length, $y > 0$ denotes the lateral variable, and $n \in (0,3)$ is themobility exponent parameterizing the nonlinear slip condition. Thepartial-wetting regime implies the boundary condition $\partial_y h =\mathrm{const.} > 0$ at the triple junction $\partial\{h > 0\}$ (nonzeromicroscopic contact angle). Existence and uniqueness of traveling-wavesolutions to this problem under the constraint $\partial_y^2 h \to 0$ as $h \to\infty$ have been proved in previous work by Chiricotto and Giacomelli in[Commun. Appl. Ind. Math., 2(2):e-388, 16, 2011]. We are interested in theasymptotics as $h \downarrow 0$ and $h \to \infty$. By reformulating theproblem as $h \downarrow 0$ as a dynamical system for the difference betweenthe solution and the microscopic contact angle, values for $n$ are found forwhich linear as well as nonlinear resonances occur. These resonances lead to adifferent asymptotic behavior of the solution as $h\downarrow0$ depending on$n$.  Together with the asymptotics as $h\to\infty$ characterizing the Cox-Voinovlaw for the velocity-dependent macroscopic contact angle as found byGiacomelli, the first author of this work, and Otto in [Nonlinearity,29(9):2497-2536, 2016], the rigorous asymptotics of traveling-wave solutions tothe thin-film equation in partial wetting can be characterized. Furthermore,our approach enables us to analyze the relation between the microscopic andmacroscopic contact angle. It is found that the Cox-Voinov law for themacroscopic contact angle depends continuously differentiably on themicroscopic contact angle.

The Cox-Voinov law for traveling waves in the partial wetting regime