Porous medium equation with a drift: free boundary regularity

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Abstract: We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the C1,alpha regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space variable in a local neighborhood. The main challenge lies in establishing a local non-degeneracy estimate (Theorem 1.3 and Proposition 1.5), which appears new even for the zero drift case.


Using fine streamlines-based estimates, the authors study regularity properties of the free boundary for the case of the porous medium equation with drift. Essentially, their calculations guarantee \(C^{1,\alpha}\)-regularity for the free boundary position when the solution is at least (locally) directionally monotone in space.



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