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We investigate the two-dimensional Muskat problem with a nonlinear elastic interface, for both one-phase and two-phase scenarios. Following the framework developed by Nguyen [35,36], we demonstrate that the problem is locally well-posed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

In this paper we consider the Muskat problem describing the motion of two unbounded immiscible fluid layers with equal viscosities in vertical or horizontal two-dimensional geometries. We first prove that the mathematical model can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We first prove local-in-time well-posedness for the Muskat problem, modeling fluid flow in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous porous media. The permeability of the porous medium is described by a step function, with a jump discontinuity across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

The Muskat problem models the filtration of two incompressible immiscible fluids of different characteristics in porous media. In this paper, we consider both the 2D and 3D setting of two fluids of different constant densities and different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Neel Patel , Robert M. Strain

We study the Muskat problem describing the spatially periodic motion of two fluids with equal viscosities under the effect of gravity in a vertical unbounded two-dimensional geometry. We first prove that the classical formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Anca-Voichita Matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study the Muskat problem on the half-plane, which models motion of an interface between two fluids of distinct densities (e.g., oil and water) in a porous medium (e.g., an aquifer) that sits atop an impermeable layer (e.g., bedrock).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Andrej Zlatos

We study the two-dimensional multiphase Muskat problem describing the motion of three immiscible fluids with equal viscosities in a vertical homogeneous porous medium identified with $\mathbb{R}^2$ under the effect of gravity. We first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Jonas Bierler , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We prove local well-posedness for the Muskat problem on the half-plane, which models motion of an interface between two fluids of distinct densities (e.g., oil and water) in a porous medium (e.g., an aquifer) that sits atop an impermeable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Andrej Zlatos

We consider the evolution of two incompressible, immiscible fluids with different densities in porous media, known as the Muskat problem [21], which in two dimensions is analogous to the Hele-Shaw cell [26]. We establish, for a class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Fan Deng , Zhen Lei , Fanghua Lin

The inhomogeneous Muskat problem models the dynamics of an interface between two fluids of differing characteristics inside a non-uniform porous medium. We consider the case of a porous media with a permeability jump across a horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Neel Patel , Nikhil Shankar

We consider the Muskat problem with surface tension for one fluid or two fluids, with or without viscosity jump, with infinite depth or Lipschitz rigid boundaries, and in arbitrary dimension $d$ of the interface. The problem is nonlocal,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Huy Q. Nguyen

We study the two-dimensional Muskat problem in a horizontally periodic setting and for fluids with arbitrary densities and viscosities. We show that in the presence of surface tension effects the Muskat problem is a quasilinear parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

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

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

In this work we study the inhomogeneous Muskat problem, \emph{i.e.} the evolution of an internal wave between two different fluids in a porous medium with discontinuous permeability. In particular, under precise conditions on the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Diego Alonso-Orán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

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

We consider the Muskat problem describing the viscous displacement in a two-phase fluid system located in an unbounded two-dimensional porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell. After formulating the mathematical model as an evolution problem for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We prove the existence of global, smooth solutions to the 2D Muskat problem in the stable regime whenever the product of the maximal and minimal slopes is strictly less than 1. The curvature of these solutions solutions decays to 0 as $t$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Stephen Cameron

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

The free boundary problem for a two-dimensional fluid filtered in porous media is studied. This is known as the one-phase Muskat problem and is mathematically equivalent to the vertical Hele-Shaw problem driven by gravity force. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Hongjie Dong , Francisco Gancedo , Huy Q. Nguyen
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