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Main Author: Zlatos, Andrej
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14659
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author Zlatos, Andrej
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contents We prove local well-posedness for the Muskat problem on the half-plane, which models motion of an interface between two fluids of distinct densities (e.g., oil and water) in a porous medium (e.g., an aquifer) that sits atop an impermeable layer (e.g., bedrock). Our result allows for the interface to touch the bottom, and hence applies to the important scenario of the heavier fluid invading a region occupied by the lighter fluid along the impermeable layer. We use this result in the companion paper [43] to prove existence of finite time stable regime singularities in this model, including for arbitrarily small initial data. We do not require the interface and its derivatives to vanish at $\pm\infty$ or be periodic, and even allow it to be $O(|x|^{1-})$, which is an optimal bound on the power of growth. We also extend our results to the cases of the Muskat problem on the whole plane and on horizontal strips, where almost all previous works did impose such limiting requirements.
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spellingShingle The 2D Muskat Problem I: Local Regularity on the Half-plane, Plane, and Strips
Zlatos, Andrej
Analysis of PDEs
We prove local well-posedness for the Muskat problem on the half-plane, which models motion of an interface between two fluids of distinct densities (e.g., oil and water) in a porous medium (e.g., an aquifer) that sits atop an impermeable layer (e.g., bedrock). Our result allows for the interface to touch the bottom, and hence applies to the important scenario of the heavier fluid invading a region occupied by the lighter fluid along the impermeable layer. We use this result in the companion paper [43] to prove existence of finite time stable regime singularities in this model, including for arbitrarily small initial data. We do not require the interface and its derivatives to vanish at $\pm\infty$ or be periodic, and even allow it to be $O(|x|^{1-})$, which is an optimal bound on the power of growth. We also extend our results to the cases of the Muskat problem on the whole plane and on horizontal strips, where almost all previous works did impose such limiting requirements.
title The 2D Muskat Problem I: Local Regularity on the Half-plane, Plane, and Strips
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14659