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Long-time behavior of a Hele-Shaw type problem in random media

Analysis of PDEs 2010-10-21 v1

Abstract

We study the long-time behavior of an exterior Hele-Shaw problem in random media with a free boundary velocity that depends on position in dimensions n2n \geq 2. A natural rescaling of solutions that is compatible with the evolution of the free boundary leads to homogenization of the free boundary velocity. By studying a limit obstacle problem for a Hele-Shaw system with a point source, we are able to show uniform convergence of the rescaled solution to a self-similar limit profile and we deduce that the rescaled free boundary uniformly approaches a sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4275,
  title  = {Long-time behavior of a Hele-Shaw type problem in random media},
  author = {Norbert Pozar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4275},
  year   = {2010}
}

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24 pages

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