Long time regularity of solutions of the Hele--Shaw problem

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2005.09.021MaRDI QIDQ2490776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Inwon Kim

Publication date 18 May 2006

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2005.09.021

zbMATH Keywords

free boundaryHele-Shaw flowlong time behaviorviscosity solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Review text

This article addresses the long time behavior of solutions of the one phase Hele-Shaw problem (without surface tension). The Hele-Shaw problem describes the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between two parallel plates of small gap. The mathematical problem is posed as a Laplace equation for the unknown fluid pressure, subject to a nonlinear transport equation prescribed on the free boundary. The article proceeds as follows: First the notion of viscosity solution is reviewed. Then it is proven that the free boundary becomes Lipschitz continuous in time and space as soon as the moving domain (``positive phase) exceeds the smallest ball in which it was contained initially. Finally, long-term regularity of solutions is shown by establishing upper and lower bounds on the gradients of solutions near the free boundary. This latter theorem is the basis for the author's existence results of (classical) analytic solutions, given in [ J. Differ. Equations 223, No. 1, 161--184 (2006; Zbl 1087.76024)]. The analysis required for the results presented here is based on solutions being harmonic at fixed time and is related to the work by \textit{L. A. Caffarelli, J. L. Vazquez} and \textit{N. I. Wolanski} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 36, 373--401 (1987; Zbl 0644.35058)] on the porous medium equation.

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