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The Muskat problem models the evolution of the interface given by two different fluids in porous media. The Rayleigh-Taylor condition is natural to reach the linear stability of the Muskat problem. We show that the Rayleigh-Taylor condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Maria Lopez-Fernandez

This paper studies the one-phase Muskat problem driven by gravity and surface tension. The regime considered here is unstable with the fluid on top of a dry region. By a novel approach using a depth-averaged formulation, we derive two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Edoardo Bocchi , Francisco Gancedo

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

Two formulas that connect the derivatives of the double layer potential and of a related singular integral operator evaluated at some density $\vartheta$ to the $L_2$-adjoints of these operators evaluated at the density $\vartheta'$ are…

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

In this paper the small-amplitude motion of multiple superposed viscous fluids is studied as a linearized initial-value problem. The analysis results in a closed set of equations for the Laplace transformed amplitudes of the interfaces that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-24 Magnus Vartdal , Andreas Nygård Osnes

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

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 study the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible 2-D flows where the evolution equation is obtained from Darcy's law. The free boundary is given by the discontinuity among the densities and viscosities of the fluids. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-16 Antonio Cordoba , Diego Cordoba , 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

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid, barotropic fluids evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. After constructing Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

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 study the two-phase, horizontally periodic, quasistationary Stokes flow in two dimensions driven by surface tension and gravity effects in the general context of fluids with (possibly) different viscosities and densities. The sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Daniel Böhme , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study the evolution of the interface given by two incompressible fluids with different densities in the porous strip $\RR\times[-l,l]$. This problem is known as the Muskat problem and is analogous to the two phase Hele-Shaw cell. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Diego Córdoba Gazolaz , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Rafael Orive Illera

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

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 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 investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang

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

In this paper, we consider a class of models for multiphase fluids, in the framework of mixture theory. The considered system, in its more general form, contains both the gradient of a hydrostatic pressure, generated by an incompressibility…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Roberta Bianchini , Roberto Natalini

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