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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

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

This paper considers the three dimensional Muskat problem in the stable regime. We obtain a conservation law which provides an $L^2$ maximum principle for the fluid interface. We also show global in time existence for strong and weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Peter Constantin , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo , Luis Rodriguez-Piazza , Robert M. Strain

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

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 study the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible fluids in a two-dimensional porous medium whose flow is modeled by the Muskat equations. For the two-phase Muskat problem, we establish global well-posedness and decay to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 C. H. Arthur Cheng , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

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

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

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

In this paper, we establish the existence of global self-similar solutions to the 3D Muskat equation when the two fluids have the same viscosity but different densities. These self-similar solutions are globally defined in both space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Jungkyoung Na

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 study the dynamics of fluids in porous media governed by Darcy's law: the Muskat problem. We consider the setting of two immiscible fluids of different densities and viscosities under the influence of gravity in which one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Neel Patel , Robert Strain

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 fluid interface problem given by two incompressible fluids with different densities evolving by Darcy's law. This scenario is known as the Muskat problem for fluids with the same viscosities, being in two dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo

We consider the 2D Muskat equation for the interface between two constant density fluids in an incompressible porous medium, with velocity given by Darcy's law. We establish that as long as the slope of the interface between the two fluids…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Peter Constantin , Francisco Gancedo , Roman Shvydkoy , Vlad Vicol

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

The Muskat problem models the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible immiscible fluids with different constant densities. In this work we prove three results. First we prove an $L^2(\R)$ maximum principle, in the form of a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Peter Constantin , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo , Robert M. Strain

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

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
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