Self-similar solutions of the three-dimensional Muskat problem with surface tension
Analysis of PDEs
2026-08-01 v1
Abstract
We construct a one-parameter family of small self-similar solutions to the three-dimensional one-phase Muskat problem with surface tension. The solutions have the form and emanate from the conical initial data . The profiles are perturbations of the linear capillary regularization of the cone, and we identify the leading quadratic correction. The proof combines a raywise inverse estimate for the linear similarity operator, a favorable high--high-to-low cancellation in the quadratic term, and finite-order tame estimates for the Dirichlet--Neumann operator on asymptotically conical graphs. These estimates yield the solutions by a contraction argument and show that the conical singularity is instantaneously rounded for positive time.
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@article{arxiv.2608.00430,
title = {Self-similar solutions of the three-dimensional Muskat problem with surface tension},
author = {Lizhe Wan and Jiaqi Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.00430},
year = {2026}
}
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40 pages