Traveling wave solutions to the one-phase Muskat problem: existence and stability

DOI10.1007/S00205-023-01951-ZarXiv2211.06286MaRDI QIDQ6182693

Ian Tice, Huy Quang Nguyen

Publication date: 25 January 2024

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 field in the bulk and an external pressure on the free boundary, both of which are posited to be in traveling wave form. We prove that for sufficiently small force and pressure data in Sobolev spaces, there exists a locally unique traveling wave solution in Sobolev-type spaces. The free boundary of the traveling wave solutions is either periodic or asymptotically flat at spatial infinity. Moreover, we prove that small periodic traveling wave solutions induced by external pressure only are asymptotically stable. These results provide the first class of nontrivial stable solutions for the problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06286

zbMATH Keywords

Darcy lawfree boundarytraveling waveMuskat problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Traveling wave solutions (35C07)

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