A filtration problem with nonlinear Darcy's law and generalized boundary conditions (Q5954434)

This article studies a filtration problems with nonlinear Darcy's law, e.g. \(\vec v=-|\nabla p|^{q-2}\nabla p\), where \(p\) is the fluid pressure , \(q>1\), and \(\vec v\) is the velocity, governed by the mass conservation law \(\text{div}(\vec v)=0\). This leads to a free boundary problem since the movement of the fluid takes place only in the ``wet part'' of the domain which is also unknown. The authors give a unified formulation of the problem to include general boundary conditions, such as Dirichlet, Neumann, and so-called leaky boundary conditions. The existence of (weak) solutions is established, for both bounded and unbounded domains, by an approximation method.