Finite propagation for a pseudoparabolic equation: Two-phase non-equilibrium flows in porous media (Q4264259)

This article is devoted to the study of the existence, uniqueness and comparison properties of the solutions \(u= u(x,t)\geq 0\) to the problem \[ u_t= \varphi(u)_{xx}+ \tau\varphi(u)_{xxt}\quad\text{for }x, t> 0;\tag{\(*\)} \] \[ \varphi(u(0, t))= 1,\quad \lim_{x\to\infty} \varphi(u(x,t))= 0\quad\text{for }t\geq 0; \] \[ (u- \tau\varphi(u)_{xx})(x, 0)= v_0(x)\quad\text{for }x\geq 0, \] where \(\varphi\) is nonnegative, nondecreasing \(C^1\) function, \(\tau>0\) is a fixed constant, and \(v_0\) is a measurable function with compact support \([0,L]\), satisfying \(0\leq v_0(x)\leq 1\). Moreover, the authors construct travelling wave solutions for equation \((*)\) that had been used to study the evolution of the interface.