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A capillarity one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem

Analysis of PDEs 2023-10-24 v1

Abstract

We consider a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem in a container DD - a smooth open subset of Rd\mathbb{R}^d - under the condition that on the fixed boundary D\partial D the normal derivative of the solutions is prescribed. We study the regularity of the free boundary (the boundary of the positivity set of the solution) up to D\partial D and the structure of the wetting region, which is the contact set between the free boundary and the ((d1)(d-1)-dimensional) fixed boundary D\partial D. In particular, we characterize the contact angle in terms of the permeability of the porous container and we show that the boundary of the wetting region is a smooth (d2)(d-2)-dimensional manifold, up to a (possibly empty) closed set of Hausdorff dimension at most d5d-5.

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@article{arxiv.2310.14309,
  title  = {A capillarity one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem},
  author = {Lorenzo Ferreri and Giorgio Tortone and Bozhidar Velichkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14309},
  year   = {2023}
}
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