Global weak solvability, continuous dependence on data, and large time growth of swelling moving interfaces

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Abstract: We prove a global existence result for weak solutions to a one-dimensional free boundary problem with flux boundary conditions describing swelling along a halfline. Additionally, we show that solutions are not only unique but also depend continuously on data and parameters. The key observation is that the structure of our system of partial differential equations allows us to show that the moving a priori unknown interface never disappears. As main ingredients of the global existence proof, we rely on a local weak solvability result for our problem, uniform estimates of the solution, integral estimates on quantities defined at the free boundary, as well as a fine pointwise lower bound for the position of the moving boundary. Some of the estimates are time-independent. They allow us to explore the large time behavior of the position of the moving boundary. The approach is specific to one-dimensional settings.


The authors study a moving-boundary problem with a kinetic condition posed at the moving interface. The role of this condition is to describe a swelling-induced by adsorption phenomenon when flux boundary conditions are prescribed. The performed analysis ensures the existence, uniqueness, positivity and boundedness of weak solutions that also depend continuously on data and parameters. A discussion of the large time behavior is also provided.











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