Well-posedness and decay to equilibrium for the Muskat problem with discontinuous permeability

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7335MaRDI QIDQ5227951zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafael Granero-Belinchón, Steve Shkoller

Publication date 7 August 2019

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06147

zbMATH Keywords

decay to equilibriuminhomogeneous porous mediumMuskat problemwell-posedness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Initial value problems for PDEs with pseudodifferential operators (35S10) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: We first prove local-in-time well-posedness for the Muskat problem, modeling fluid flow in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous porous media. The permeability of the porous medium is described by a step function, with a jump discontinuity across the fixed-in-time curve $(x_1,-1+f(x_1))$, while the interface separating the fluid from the vacuum region is given by the time-dependent curve $(x_1,h(x_1,t))$. Our estimates are based on a new methodology that relies upon a careful study of the PDE system, coupling Darcy's law and incompressibility of the fluid, rather than the analysis of the singular integral contour equation for the interface function $h$. We are able to develop an existence theory for any initial interface given by $h_{0}in{H}^2$ and any permeability curve-of-discontinuity that is given by $fin{H}^{2.5}$. In particular, our method allows for both curves to have (pointwise) unbounded curvature. In the case that the permeability discontinuity is the set $f=0$, we prove global existence and decay to equilibrium for small initial data. This decay is obtained using a new energy-energy dissipation inequality that couples tangential derivatives of the velocity in the bulk of the fluid with the curvature of the interface. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first global existence result for the Muskat problem with discontinuous permeability.

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