A gradient flow for the Porous Medium Equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions
Analysis of PDEs
2025-05-30 v3 Optimization and Control
Abstract
We consider the gradient flow structure of the porous medium equations with non-negative constant Dirichlet boundary conditions. We construct weak solutions to the equations via the minimizing movement scheme by considering an entropy functional with respect to distance, which is a modified Wasserstein distance introduced by Figalli and Gigli [J. Math. Pures Appl. 94, (2010), pp. 107-130]. Furthermore, the constructed solutions are characterized as curves of maximal slope in a suitable sense.
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@article{arxiv.2212.06092,
title = {A gradient flow for the Porous Medium Equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions},
author = {Dongkwang Kim and Dowan Koo and Geuntaek Seo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06092},
year = {2025}
}
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Revised version; 23 pages