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Splash singularities for the one-phase Muskat problem in stable regimes

Analysis of PDEs 2015-02-10 v2

Abstract

This paper shows finite time singularity formation for the Muskat problem in a stable regime. The framework we found is with a dry region, where the density and the viscosity are set equal to 00 (the gradient of the pressure is equal to (0,0)(0,0)) in the complement of the fluid domain. The singularity is a splash-type: a smooth fluid boundary collapses due to two different particles evolve to collide at a single point. This is the first example of a splash singularity for a parabolic problem.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7653,
  title  = {Splash singularities for the one-phase Muskat problem in stable regimes},
  author = {Angel Castro and Diego Cordoba and Charles Fefferman and Francisco Gancedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7653},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Minor comments added, 26 pages, 1 figure

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