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This paper is concerned with the long time dynamics of the free boundary of a Darcy fluid in three space dimensions, also known as the one-phase Muskat problem. The dynamics of the free boundary is governed by a nonlocal fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 H. Dong , F. Gancedo. H. Q. Nguyen

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

In this paper we establish the well-posedness of the Muskat problem with surface tension and equal viscosities in the subcritical Sobolev spaces $W^s_p(\mathbb{R})$, where ${p\in(1,2]}$ and ${s\in(1+1/p,2)}$. This is achieved by showing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Anca-Voichita Matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

The present paper is devoted to the joint motion of two immiscible incompressible liquids in porous media. The liquids have different densities and initially separated by a surface of strong discontinuity (free boundary). We discuss the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-10 O. V. Galtsev , A. M. Meirmanov

The Muskat problem involves filtration of two incompressible fluids throughout a porous medium. In this paper we shall discuss in 3-D the relevance of the Rayleigh-Taylor condition, and the topology of the initial interface, in order to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-20 Antonio Cordoba , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo

We consider the three-phase Muskat problem with different densities and the same viscosities. The lifespan of the solutions with respect to the width of the strip between interfaces is studied. Indeed, the interfaces are parameterized by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ángel Castro , Liangchen Zou

In this article, we apply the viscosity solutions theory for integro-differential equations to the \emph{one-phase} Muskat equation (also known as the Hele-Shaw problem with gravity). We prove global well-posedness for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Russell Schwab , Son Tu , Olga Turanova

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 describing the vertical motion of two immiscible fluids in a two-dimensional homogeneous porous medium in an $L_p$-setting with $p\in(1,\infty)$. The Sobolev space $W^s_p(\mathbb{R})$ with $s=1+1/p$ is a critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Helmut Abels , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

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

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

Of concern is the motion of two fluids separated by a free interface in a porous medium, where the velocities are given by Darcy's law. We consider the case with and without phase transition. It is shown that the resulting models can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett

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 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 $0$ (the gradient of the pressure is equal to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo

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 two-phase horizontally periodic quasistationary Stokes flow in $\mathbb{R}^2$, describing the motion of two immiscible fluids with equal viscosities that are separated by a sharp interface, which is parameterized as the graph of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Daniel Böhme , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this work, we derive asymptotic interface models for an elastic Muskat free boundary problem describing Darcy flow beneath an elastic membrane. In a weakly nonlinear regime of small interface steepness, we obtain nonlocal evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Diego Alonso-Orán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

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

In a recent paper, a continuum theory of immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media based on generalized thermodynamic principles was formulated (Transport in Porous Media, 125, 565 (2018)). In this theory, two immiscible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-05 Håkon Pedersen , Alex Hansen

In this paper we study the evolution of multiple fluids with different constant densities in porous media. This physical scenario is known as the Muskat and the (multi-phase) Hele-Shaw problems. In this context we prove that the fluids do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo