An Elliptic-Parabolic Free Boundary Problem with Discontinuous Data
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| author | Kriventsov, Dennis Soria-Carro, María |
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| contents | We consider an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to investigate, for the 1+1 dimensional model, how jump discontinuities on the boundary and initial data influence the regularity of both the solution and the free boundary. We show that if the data is merely bounded, then weak solutions are Lipschitz in space and $C^{1/2}$ in time in the unsaturated region. Moreover, the free boundary is locally the graph of a $C^{1/2}$ function, and this regularity is optimal. We view this analysis as a stepping stone towards the study of local regularization for higher-dimensional elliptic-parabolic free boundaries. |
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| spellingShingle | An Elliptic-Parabolic Free Boundary Problem with Discontinuous Data Kriventsov, Dennis Soria-Carro, María Analysis of PDEs 35R35, 35K65 (Primary) 35B65 (Secondary) We consider an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to investigate, for the 1+1 dimensional model, how jump discontinuities on the boundary and initial data influence the regularity of both the solution and the free boundary. We show that if the data is merely bounded, then weak solutions are Lipschitz in space and $C^{1/2}$ in time in the unsaturated region. Moreover, the free boundary is locally the graph of a $C^{1/2}$ function, and this regularity is optimal. We view this analysis as a stepping stone towards the study of local regularization for higher-dimensional elliptic-parabolic free boundaries. |
| title | An Elliptic-Parabolic Free Boundary Problem with Discontinuous Data |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs 35R35, 35K65 (Primary) 35B65 (Secondary) |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13299 |