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In this paper, we study the dynamics of a two-dimensional viscous fluid evolving through a porous medium or a Hele-Shaw cell, driven by gravity and surface tension. A key feature of this study is that the fluid is confined within a vessel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Edoardo Bocchi , Ángel Castro , Francisco Gancedo

We address a generalised three-dimensional $\alpha$-Muskat model that comes from the fluid interface problem given by two incompressible fluids with different densities in the stable regime. We establish local-in-time wellposedness when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Qasim Khan , Anthony Suen , Bao Quoc Tang

In this paper we study the two-dimensional multiphase Muskat problem describing the motion of three immiscible fluids with general viscosities in a vertical homogeneous porous medium under the influence of gravity. Employing Rellich type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Jonas Bierler , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study capillary-gravity surface waves for fluid flows governed by Darcy's law. This includes flows in vertical Hele-Shaw cells and in porous media (the one-phase Muskat problem) with finite or infinite depth. The free boundary is acted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Huy Q. Nguyen

We consider the interface problem between two incompressible and inviscid fluids in the presence of surface tension. Following the geometric approach of [Shatah,J.;Zeng,C. A priori estimates for Fluid Interface Problems. CPAM, vol.16, no.6,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Fabio Pusateri

In this paper, we consider a singular limit problem for a diffuse interface model for two immiscible compressible viscous fluids. Via a relative entropy method, we obtain a convergence result for the low Mach number limit to a corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Helmut Abels , Yadong Liu , Šárka Nečasová

The singular limit of the thin film Muskat problem is performed when the density (and possibly the viscosity) of the lighter fluid vanishes and the porous medium equation is identified as the limit problem. In particular, the height of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Philippe Laurençot , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini

A mesh condition is developed for linear finite element approximations of anisotropic diffusion-convection-reaction problems to satisfy a discrete maximum principle. Loosely speaking, the condition requires that the mesh be simplicial and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Changna Lu , Weizhang Huang , Jianxian Qiu

We analyze a diffuse interface model for multi-phase flows of $N$ incompressible, viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities. In the case of a bounded and sufficiently smooth domain existence of weak solutions in two and three space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

A classical topic in the mathematical theory of hydrodynamics is to study the evolution of the free surface separating air from an incompressible perfect fluid. The goal of this survey is to examine this problem for two important sets of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Thomas Alazard

In this paper, we establish the global well-posedness of the one-phase Muskat problem with surface tension for small initial data. This problem describes the motion of the interface separating a wet region from a dry region within a porous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Hongjie Dong , Hyunwoo Kwon

We consider the evolution of an interface generated between two immiscible incompressible and irrotational fluids. Specifically we study the Muskat and water wave problems. We show that starting with a family of initial data given by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Maria Lopez-Fernandez

We consider the spreading of a thin two-dimensional droplet on a solid substrate. We use a model for viscous fluids where the evolution is governed by Darcy's Law. At the triple point where air and liquid meet the solid substrate, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Hans Knüpfer , Nader Masmoudi

We review some recent results on the Muskat problem modelling multiphase flow in porous media. Furthermore, we prove a new regularity criterion in terms of some norms of the initial data in critical spaces ($\dot{W}^{1,\infty}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Omar Lazar

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem on the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system with collisions when initial data are around a constant equilibrium state. The main goal is the rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Renjun Duan , Qingqing Liu , Changjiang Zhu

The dynamical equation of the boundary vorticity has been obtained, which shows that the viscosity at a solid wall is doubled as if the fluid became more viscous at the boundary. For certain viscous flows the boundary vorticity can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-28 V. Cherepanov , J. Liu , Z. Qian

In this work we study the evolution of the free boundary between two different fluids in a porous medium where the permeability is a two dimensional step function. The medium can fill the whole plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ or a bounded strip…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Luigi Berselli , Diego Cordoba , Rafael Granero-Belinchon

We are concerned with a model describing the motion of two compressible, immiscible fluids with density-dependent viscosity in the whole $\mathbb R^3$. The phases of the flow may have different pressure and viscosity laws and are separated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Marcel Zodji

We study a moving boundary problem modeling an injected fluid into another viscous fluid. The viscous fluid is withdrawn at infinity and governed by Darcy's law. We present solutions to the free boundary problem in terms of time-derivative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Lavi Karp