Laplacian growth, elliptic growth, and singularities of the Schwarz potential

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/13/135202zbMATH Open1211.35291arXiv1009.5159OpenAlexW3102764058MaRDI QIDQ2995069FDOQ2995069

Authors: Erik Lundberg 

Publication date: 20 April 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Schwarz function has played an elegant role in understanding and in generating new examples of exact solutions to the Laplacian growth (or "Hele- Shaw") problem in the plane. The guiding principle in this connection is the fact that "non-physical" singularities in the "oil domain" of the Schwarz function are stationary, and the "physical" singularities obey simple dynamics. We give an elementary proof that the same holds in any number of dimensions for the Schwarz potential, introduced by D. Khavinson and H. S. Shapiro [17] (1989). A generalization is also given for the so-called "elliptic growth" problem by defining a generalized Schwarz potential. New exact solutions are constructed, and we solve inverse problems of describing the driving singularities of a given flow. We demonstrate, by example, how mathbb{C}^n - techniques can be used to locate the singularity set of the Schwarz potential. One of our methods is to prolong available local extension theorems by constructing "globalizing families". We make three conjectures in potential theory relating to our investigation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5159

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zbMATH Keywords

Schwarz functionLaplacian growthHele-Shaw problemSchwarz potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moving boundary problems for PDEs (35R37) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Boundary value and inverse problems for harmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B20) Continuation of analytic objects in several complex variables (32D15) Complex variables methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M40)

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