Long-time behavior of a Hele-Shaw type problem in random media (Q651812)

The author considers a Hele-Shaw type problem in random media and studies the long-time behavior of the solutions. Let \(n\geq 2 \) and let \(K\subset \Omega_{0}\subset {\mathbb R}^{n}\), \(0\in \text{int}\, K\), \(K\) be a nonempty compact set, and \(\Omega_{0}\) be a bounded open set such that \(K\) and \(\Omega_0\) have smooth boundaries. Let \(\Gamma=\partial K\) and \(\Gamma_0=\partial \Omega_0\). The Hele-Shaw type problem is to find a function \(v(t,x):\;{\mathbb R}^{n}\times[0,\infty)\to {\mathbb R}\), that solves \(-\Delta v=0\) on \(\{v>0\}\setminus K\), \(v=1\) on \(K\), \(v_{t}=g(x,\omega)| Dv|^2\) on \(\partial\{v>0\}\), \(v(\cdot,0)=v_0\) on \(\Omega_0\setminus K\), where the initial data \(v_0(x):\;{\mathbb R}^{n}\to {\mathbb R}\) is the solution \(-\Delta v_0=0\) in \(\Omega_0\setminus K\), \(v_0=1\) on \(K\), \(v_0=0\) on \(\partial \Omega_0\), here \(g(x,\omega)\) is stationary ergodic stochastic function. The main result of this paper is the locally uniform convergence of a rescaled viscosity solution of the inhomogeneous problem \(v^{\lambda}(x,t)=\lambda^{(n-2)/n}v(\lambda^{1/n}x,\lambda t)\) if \(n\geq3\), as \(\lambda\to\infty\), to the self-similar solution of the Hele-Shaw problem with a point source, formally \(-\Delta v=C\delta\) in \(\{v>0\}\), \(v_{t}={1\over\langle1/g\rangle}| Dv|^2\) on \(\partial\{v>0\}\), \(v(\cdot,0)=0\). Here \(\delta\) is the Dirac \(\delta\)-function with mass at the origin, the constant \(\langle 1/g\rangle\) represents the ``average'' of \(1/g\).