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This paper studies the regularity of the free boundary for viscosity solutions to a parabolic Bernoulli-type free boundary problem with variable coefficients. The main result is that Lipschitz free boundaries are $C^1$ with a normal vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing

In this paper, we establish the regularity results for nonnegative viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear equations of porous medium-type in bounded domains with the zero Dirichlet boundary condition, to be precise, we prove the global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Hyungsung Yun

We are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of solutions with only bounded density for the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Assuming that the initial velocity has slightly sub-critical regularity and that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Raphaël Danchin , Francesco Fanelli , Marius Paicu

In recent years, several numerical methods for solving the unique continuation problem for the wave equation in a homogeneous medium with given data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder have been proposed. This problem enjoys…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss , Tim van Beeck

In this paper, we generalize the main results of [1] and [31] to Lorentz spaces, using a simple procedure. The main results are the following. Let $n\geq 3$ and let $u$ be a Leray-Hopf solution to the $n$-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Benjamin Pineau , Xinwei Yu

We study the regularity of a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is $u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-1/2}u).$ For definiteness, the problem is posed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Luis Caffarelli , Juan Luis Vázquez

We study regularity properties of solutions to reaction-diffusion equations ruled by the infinity laplacian operator. We focus our analysis in models presenting plateaus, i.e. regions where a non-negative solution vanishes identically. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Damião J. Araújo , Raimundo Leitão , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We consider divergence form elliptic equations $Lu:=\nabla\cdot(A\nabla u)=0$ in the half space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+ :=\{(x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times(0,\infty)\}$, whose coefficient matrix $A$ is complex elliptic, bounded and measurable. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Steve Hofmann , Svitlana Mayboroda , Mihalis Mourgoglou

We establish local interior Lipschitz continuity of the solutions of a class of free boundary elliptic problems assuming the coefficients of the equation of Dini mean oscillation in at least one direction. The novelty in this regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Abdeslem Lyaghfouri

We consider an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Dennis Kriventsov , María Soria-Carro

In this paper, we consider a vector-valued one-phase Bernoulli-type free boundary problem on a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ with Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $RCD(K,N)$. We first prove the existence and the local Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Chung-Kwong Chan , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We study one-dimensional motions of polytropic gas governed by the compressible Euler equations. The problem on the half space under a constant gravity gives an equilibrium which has free boundary touching the vacuum and the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-29 Cheng-Hsiung Hsu , Song-Sun Lin , Tetu Makino , Chi-Ru Yang

We prove uniform parabolic H\"older estimates of De Giorgi-Nash-Moser type for sequences of minimizers of the functionals \[ \mathcal{E}_\varepsilon(W) = \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{- t/\varepsilon}}{\varepsilon} \bigg\{…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Alessandro Audrito

We investigate a class of n-dimensional free boundary elliptic problems which includes the dam problem, the aluminum problem, and the lubrication problem. We establish that the free boundary in this class is a porous set, which implies its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Abdeslem Lyaghfouri

We are concerned with the inviscid limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations for barotropic compressible fluids in $\mathbb{R}^3$. When the viscosity coefficients obey a lower power-law of the density (i.e., $\rho^\delta$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Geng Chen , Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Shengguo Zhu

In this paper study the regularity of continuous casting problem \begin{equation} \hbox{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u-{\bf v} \beta(u))=0\tag{$\sharp$} \end{equation} for prescribed constant velocity $\bf v$ and enthalpy $\beta(u)$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Aram Karakhanyan

We prove sharp regularity estimates for solutions of obstacle type problems driven by a class of degenerate fully nonlinear operators; more specifically, we consider viscosity solutions of \[ |D u|^\gamma F(x, D^2u) = f(x)\chi_{\{u>\phi\}}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 João Vitor Da Silva , Hernán Vivas

We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for a general class of two-phase free boundary problems with non-zero right hand side. We prove that Lipschitz or flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\gamma}$. In particular, viscosity solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

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

In this paper, we prove several regularity results for the heterogeneous, two-phase free boundary problems $\mathcal {J}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\big(f(x,\nabla u)+\lambda_{+}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Jun Zheng