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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 Peskin problem models the dynamics of a closed elastic filament immersed in an incompressible fluid. In this paper, we consider the case when the inner and outer viscosities are possibly different. This viscosity contrast adds further…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Yoichiro Mori , Robert M. Strain

We study the Muskat problem, which describes the motion of two immiscible, incompressible fluids in a homogeneous porous medium occupying the full space ${\mathbb{R}^{N+1}}$, $N \geq 2$, driven by gravity. The interface between the fluids…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert

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 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

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

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

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

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

In this paper we consider the evolution of two fluid phases in a porous medium. The fluids are separated from each other and also the wetting phase from air by interfaces which evolve in time. We reduce the problem to an abstract evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc , 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

Two-fluid interfaces in porous media, an example of driven disordered systems, were studied by a real time three-dimensional imaging technique with pore scale resolution for a less viscous fluid displacing a more viscous one. With…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-23 Prerna Sharma , P. Aswathi , Anit Sane , Shankar Ghosh , S. Bhattacharya

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

For the water waves equations, the existence of splat singularities has been shown in [3], i.e., the interface self-intersects along an arc in finite time. The aim of this paper is to show the absence of splat singularities for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Diego Córdoba , Tania Pernas-Castaño

When two immiscible liquids that coexist inside a porous medium are drained through an opening, a complex flow takes place in which the interface between the liquids moves, tilts and bends. The interface profiles depend on the physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-14 Alejandro David Mariotti , Elena Brandaleze , Gustavo C. Buscaglia

We exhibit a family of graphs that develop turning singularities (i.e. their Lipschitz seminorm blows up and they cease to be a graph, passing from the stable to the unstable regime) for the inhomogeneous, two-phase Muskat problem where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Javier Gómez-Serrano , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

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

We prove the existence of mixing solutions of the incompressible porous media equation for all Muskat type $H^5$ initial data in the fully unstable regime. The proof combines convex integration, contour dynamics and a basic calculus for non…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Ángel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Daniel Faraco

In this paper, we show that if a solution to the Muskat problem in the case of different densities and the same viscosity is sufficiently smooth, then it must be analytic except at the points where a turnover of the fluids happens.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jia Shi

Fluid flow through bimodal porous media, characterized by a distinct separation in pore size distribution, is critical in various scientific and engineering applications, including groundwater management, oil and gas production, and carbon…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-06 Yuhe Wang , Yating Wang