Renormalization study of two-dimensional convergent solutions of the porous medium equation

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00209-2MaRDI QIDQ1581770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. G. Aronson, S. I. Betelu, S. B. Angenent

Publication date 8 October 2000

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9908006

zbMATH Keywords

centered second-order finite difference approximationcircular level setsdiffusionfocusingporous medium equationrenormalizationself-similaritysinusoidal perturbationupwind ENO schemewave number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: In the focusing problem we study a solution of the porous medium equation $u_t=Delta(u^m)$ whose initial distribution is positive in the exterior of a closed non-circular two dimensional region, and zero inside. We implement a numerical scheme that renormalizes the solution each time that the average size of the empty region reduces by a half. The initial condition is a function with circular level sets distorted with a small sinusoidal perturbation of wave number $kgeq3$. We find that for nonlinearity exponents m smaller than a critical value which depends on k, the solution tends to a self-similar regime, characterized by rounded polygonal interfaces and similarity exponents that depend on m and on the discrete rotational symmetry number k. For m greater than the critical value, the final form of the interface is circular.

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