Behaviour of interfaces in a diffusion-absorption equation with critical exponents

DOI10.4171/IFB/28MaRDI QIDQ1590208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergei I. Shmarev, V. A. Galaktionov, Juan Luis Vázquez

Publication date 13 November 2001

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/ifb/28

zbMATH Keywords

analyticity of interfaceDarcy lawdiffusive-absorbing porous mediainflection pointinterface regularitymatching expansionmaximum principlenonlinear diffusion equationthermal propagationturning pointwaiting time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Review text

The authors investigate the nonlinear diffusion equation \(u_t= (u^m)_{xx}- u^p\) for \(x\in\mathbb{R}\), \(t> 0\), with continuous compactly supported initial data \(u(x,0)= u_0(x)\geq 0\) in the critical case \(m+ p=2\), \(m> 1\), \(p< 1\). Physically, the equation describes thermal propagation in diffusive-absorbing porous media. The main aim is to study the regularity of the ``interface, i.e. the curve separating the regions \(\{u>0\}\) and \(\{u= 0\}\) in the plane \((x,t)\). Using the maximum principle and matching technique, the authors establish the analyticity of the interface and demonstrate the occurrence of turning as well as inflection points for the interface curves. The results are compared with the purely diffusive case \(u_t= (u^m)_{xx}\) and some qualitative differences are found.

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