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Rayleigh-Taylor breakdown for the Muskat problem with applications to water waves

Analysis of PDEs 2011-06-14 v2

Abstract

The Muskat problem models the evolution of the interface given by two different fluids in porous media. The Rayleigh-Taylor condition is natural to reach the linear stability of the Muskat problem. We show that the Rayleigh-Taylor condition may hold initially but break down in finite time. As a consequence of the method used, we prove the existence of water waves turning.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1902,
  title  = {Rayleigh-Taylor breakdown for the Muskat problem with applications to water waves},
  author = {Angel Castro and Diego Cordoba and Charles Fefferman and Francisco Gancedo and Maria Lopez-Fernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1902},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

38 pages, added new comments and a figure, corrected typos