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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 establish the global well-posedness of the one-phase Muskat problem with surface tension for small initial data. This problem describes the motion of the interface separating a wet region from a dry region within a porous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Hongjie Dong , Hyunwoo Kwon

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

The Muskat problem models the filtration of two incompressible immiscible fluids of different characteristics in porous media. In this paper, we consider both the 2D and 3D setting of two fluids of different constant densities and different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Neel Patel , Robert M. Strain

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

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

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 an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Dennis Kriventsov , María Soria-Carro

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

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

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

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 study the Muskat problem for one fluid or two fluids, with or without viscosity jump, with or without rigid boundaries, and in arbitrary space dimension $d$ of the interface. The Muskat problem is scaling invariant in the Sobolev space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Huy Q. Nguyen , Benoît Pausader

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

The one-phase and two-phase Muskat problems with arbitrary viscosity contrast are studied in all dimensions. They are quasilinear parabolic equations for the graph free boundary. We prove that small data in the scaling invariant homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Huy Q. Nguyen

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

We prove that the 3D stable Muskat problem is globally well-posed in the critical Sobolev space $\dot H^2 \cap \dot W^{1,\infty}$ provided that the semi-norm $\Vert f_0 \Vert_{\dot H^{2}}$ is small enough. Consequently, this allows the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Francisco Gancedo , Omar Lazar

The \emph{two-dimensional} (2D) existence result of global(-in-time) solutions for the motion equations of incompressible, inviscid, non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids with velocity damping had been established in [Wu--Wu--Xu,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

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

A class of diffusion driven Free Boundary Problems is considered which is characterized by the initial onset of a phase and by an explicit kinematic condition for the evolution of the free boundary. By a domain fixing change of variables it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Patrick Guidotti
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