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We extend basic regularity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem to some classes of heterogeneous quasilinear elliptic operators with variable growth that includes, in particular, the $p(x)$-Laplacian. Under the assumption of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-28 S. Challal , A. Lyaghfouri , J. F. Rodrigues , R. Teymurazyan

This is the sequel of the recent work (Du, Huang, Pu, Commun. Math. Phys, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00220-023-04651-7) on axially symmetric gravity water waves with general vorticities, which has investigated the singular wave profile of the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Lili Du , Chunlei Yang

We consider the fractional mean curvature flow of entire Lipschitz graphs. We provide regularity results, and we study the long time asymptotics of the flow. In particular we show that in a suitable rescaled framework, if the initial graph…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga

Recent work by Serfaty and Serra give a formula for the velocity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem at regular points [Serfaty-Serra 2018], and much older work by King, Lacey, and Vazquez gives an example of a singular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Niles Armstrong , Ivan Blank

We prove boundary H\"older and Lipschitz regularity for a class of degenerate elliptic, second order, inhomogeneous equations in non-divergence form structured on the left-invariant vector fields of the Heisenberg group. Our focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Farhan Abedin , Giulio Tralli

The main result of this paper is to prove that viscosity solutions to a parabolic free boundary problem with variable coefficients are Lipschitz continuous under the assumptions that the solution has a Lipschitz free boundary and satisfies…

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

This article is devoted to the study of the Hele-Shaw equation. We introduce an approach inspired by the water-wave theory. Starting from a reduction to the boundary, introducing the Dirichlet to Neumann operator and exploiting various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Meunier , Didier Smets

In this paper, we consider a free boundary problem of a semilinear nonhomogeneous elliptic equation with Bernoulli's type free boundary. The existence and regularity of the solution to the free boundary problem are established by use of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jianfeng Cheng , Lili Du

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

We prove $L^2$-maximal regularity of linear non-autonomous evolutionary Cauchy problem \begin{equation}\label{eq00}\nonumber \dot{u} (t)+A(t)u(t)=f(t) \hbox{ for }\ \hbox{a.e. t}\in [0,T],\quad u(0)=u_0, \end{equation} where the operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Ahmed Sani , Hafida Laasri

In this paper we prove local interior and boundary Lipschitz continuity of solutions of a free boundary problem involving the $A$-Laplacian. We also show that the free boundary is represented locally by graphs of a family of lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 S. Challal , A. Lyaghfouri

This paper considers a class of nonlinear, degenerate drift- diffusion equations. We study well-posedness and regularity properties of the solutions, with the goal to achieve uniform H\"{o}lder regularity in terms of $L^p$-bound on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Inwon Kim , Yuming Zhang

We prove H\"older regularity of any continuous solution $u$ to a $1$-D scalar balance law $u_t + [f(u)]_x = g$, when the source term $g$ is bounded and the flux $f$ is nonlinear of order $\ell \in \mathbb{N}$ with $\ell \ge 2$. For example,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Laura Caravenna , Elio Marconi , Andrea Pinamonti

We discuss a lubrication approximation model of the interface between two immiscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell, derived in \cite{CDGKSZ93} and widely studied since. The model consists of a single one dimensional evolution equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Peter Constantin , Tarek Elgindi , Huy Nguyen , Vlad Vicol

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of viscosity solutions for two-phase free boundary problems for the $p$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side, where $p\in (1,\infty)$. This is the optimal regularity for the problem. We also obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

We show that any open set that is a finite distance away from a Lipschitz subgraph will become a Lipschitz subgraph after flowing under fractional mean curvature flow for a finite, universal time. Our proof is quantitative and inherently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Stephen Cameron

A mathematical model describing motion of an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell is considered. Linear stability analysis of shear flow class is provided. The role of inertia, linear friction and impermeable boundaries in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Alexander Chesnokov , Irina Stepanova

We study the regularity of the bounded self-similar solution to the one-phase Stefan problem with fractional diffusion posed on the whole line. In terms of the enthalpy $h(x,t)$, the evolution problem reads \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t h +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Marcos Llorca , Juan Luis Vázquez

This paper concerns the regularity and geometry of the free boundary in the optimal partial transport problem for general cost functions. More specifically, we prove that a $C^1$ cost implies a locally Lipschitz free boundary. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Shibing Chen , Emanuel Indrei

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan