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The Muskat problem, in its general setting, concerns the interface evolution between two incompressible fluids of different densities and viscosities in porous media. The interface motion is driven by gravity and capillarity forces, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Patrick T. Flynn , 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

We consider the one-phase Muskat problem modeling the dynamics of the free boundary of a single fluid in porous media. We prove local well-posedness for fluid interfaces that are general curves and can have singularities. In particular, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Siddhant Agrawal , Neel Patel , Sijue Wu

We study the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible fluids in a two-dimensional porous medium whose flow is modeled by the Muskat equations. For the two-phase Muskat problem, we establish global well-posedness and decay to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 C. H. Arthur Cheng , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

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

In this paper we consider the Muskat problem describing the motion of two unbounded immiscible fluid layers with equal viscosities in vertical or horizontal two-dimensional geometries. We first prove that the mathematical model can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

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

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

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

We study the two-phase Muskat--Verigin free-boundary problem for elliptic equations with nonlinear sources. The existence of a smooth solution and a smooth free boundary is proved locally in time by applying the parabolic regularization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Sergey P. Degtyarev

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

We consider the Muskat problem with surface tension for one fluid or two fluids, with or without viscosity jump, with infinite depth or Lipschitz rigid boundaries, and in arbitrary dimension $d$ of the interface. The problem is nonlocal,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Huy Q. Nguyen

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 investigate the two-dimensional Muskat problem with a nonlinear elastic interface, for both one-phase and two-phase scenarios. Following the framework developed by Nguyen [35,36], we demonstrate that the problem is locally well-posed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

We study the Muskat problem for one fluid in arbitrary dimension, bounded below by a flat bed and above by a free boundary given as a graph. In addition to a fixed uniform gravitational field, the fluid is acted upon by a generic force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Huy Q. Nguyen , Ian Tice

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 prove the existence and uniqueness of global, classical solutions to the 3D Muskat problem in the stable regime whenever the initial interface has sublinear growth and slope $||\nabla_x f_0||_{L^\infty}< 5^{-1/2}$. We show under these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Stephen Cameron

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

This paper proposes a new general methodology for finite-time singularity formation for moving interface problems involving the incompressible Euler equations in the plane. The first problem considered is the two-phase Euler vortex sheets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Daniel Coutand

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
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