Numerical investigation of the free boundary regularity for a degenerate advection-diffusion problem

DOI10.4171/IFB/386zbMATH Open1386.35493arXiv1603.03352MaRDI QIDQ1687828FDOQ1687828

Authors: Léonard Monsaingeon 

Publication date: 4 January 2018

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

Abstract: We study the free boundary regularity of the traveling wave solutions to a degenerate advection-diffusion problem of Porous Medium type, whose existence was proved in cite{MonsaingonNovikovRoquejoffre}. We set up a finite difference scheme allowing to compute approximate solutions and capture the free boundaries, and we carry out a numerical investigation of their regularity. Based on some nondegeneracy assumptions supported by solid numerical evidence, we prove the Lipschitz regularity of the free boundaries. Our simulations indicate that this regularity is optimal, and the free boundaries seem to develop Lipschitz corners at least for some values of the nonlinear diffusion exponent. We discuss analytically the existence of corners in the framework of viscosity solutions to certain periodic Hamilton-Jacobi equations, whose validity is again supported by numerical evidence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03352

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi equationstraveling wavesdegenerate diffusionfree boundariesnumerical investigation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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• Porous medium equation with a drift: free boundary regularity
• Free boundary regularity of the porous medium equation with nonlocal drifts in dimension one
• Singular limit of the porous medium equation with a drift

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