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The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…
In the focusing problem we study a solution of the porous medium equation $u_t=\Delta (u^m)$ whose initial distribution is positive in the exterior of a closed non-circular two dimensional region, and zero inside. We implement a numerical…
We study the regularity of a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is $u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-1/2}u).$ For definiteness, the problem is posed…
We consider an asymmetric zero range process in infinite volume with zero mean and random jump rates starting from equilibrium. We investigate the large deviations from the hydrodynamical limit of the empirical distribution of particles and…
We consider the one-dimensional porous medium equation $u_t=\left (u^nu_x \right )_x+\frac{\mu}{x}u^nu_x$. We derive point transformations of a general class that map this equation into itself or into equations of a similar class. In some…
The final goal of this paper is to prove existence of local (strong) solutions to a (fully nonlinear) porous medium equation with blow-up term and nondecreasing constraint. To this end, the equation, arising in the context of Damage…
We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. More precisely, $$ u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u), \quad \ 0<s<1. $$ The problem is posed in $\{x\in\ren, t\in…
We derive the porous medium equation from an interacting particle system which belongs to the family of exclusion processes, with nearest neighbor exchanges. The particles follow a degenerate dynamics, in the sense that the jump rates can…
This paper is devoted to the homogenization (or upscaling) of a system of partial differential equations describing the non-ideal transport of a N-component electrolyte in a dilute Newtonian solvent through a rigid porous medium. Realistic…
In this paper we consider the time dependent Porous Medium Equation, $u_t = \Delta u^\gamma$ with real polytropic exponent $\gamma>1$, subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. We are interested in recovering $\gamma$ from the…
We consider the large deviations of the hydrodynamic rescaling of the zero-range process on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ in any dimension $d\ge 1$. Under mild and canonical hypotheses on the local jump rate, we obtain matching upper and lower bounds,…
We develop a theory of existence, uniqueness and regularity for a porous medium equation with fractional diffusion, $\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + (-\Delta)^{1/2} (|u|^{m-1}u)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, with $m>m_*=(N-1)/N$, $N\ge1$ and $f\in…
The central problem in the physics of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is to find a proper description of the flow at scales large enough so that the medium may be regarded as a continuum: the scale-up problem. So far, the only…
This papers deals with a construction and convergence analysis of a finite difference scheme for solving time-fractional porous medium equation. The governing equation exhibits both nonlocal and nonlinear behaviour making the numerical…
We study the positivity and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equations $u_t+(-\Delta)^su^m=0$ in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$, for $m>1$ and $s\in (0,1)$ and with Dirichlet boundary data $u=0$ in…
Nonlinear diffusion $\partial_t \rho = \Delta(\Phi(\rho))$ is considered for a class of nonlinearities $\Phi$. It is shown that for suitable choices of $\Phi$, an associated Lyapunov functional can be interpreted as thermodynamics entropy.…
Both the porous medium equation and the system of isentropic Euler equations can be considered as steepest descents on suitable manifolds of probability measures in the framework of optimal transport theory. By discretizing these…
We consider the partial differential equation $$ u-f={\rm div}\left(u^m\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right) $$ with $f$ nonnegative and bounded and $m\in\mathbb{R}$. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for both the Dirichlet…
We consider a class of porous medium type of equations with Caputo time derivative. The prototype problem reads as $\Dc u=-\A u^m$ and is posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with zero Dirichlet boundary…
In this paper we study existence and nonexistence of solutions for a Dirichlet boundary value problem whose model is $$ \begin{cases} -\sum_{m=1}^{\infty} a_m \Delta u^m= f&\text{in}\ \Omega \newline u=0 & \text{on}\ \partial\Omega\,,…