Global Regularity for Gravity Unstable Muskat Bubbles

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1455OpenAlexW2914100864MaRDI QIDQ6201445FDOQ6201445

Authors: Francisco Gancedo, Eduardo García-Juárez, Neel Patel, Robert M. Strain 

Publication date: 20 February 2024

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

Abstract: In this paper, we study the dynamics of fluids in porous media governed by Darcy's law: the Muskat problem. We consider the setting of two immiscible fluids of different densities and viscosities under the influence of gravity in which one fluid is completely surrounded by the other. This setting is gravity unstable because along a portion of the interface, the denser fluid must be above the other. Surprisingly, even without capillarity, the circle-shaped bubble is a steady state solution moving with vertical constant velocity determined by the density jump between the fluids. Taking advantage of our discovery of this steady state, we are able to prove global in time existence and uniqueness of dynamic bubbles of nearly circular shapes under the influence of surface tension. We prove this global existence result for low regularity initial data. Moreover, we prove that these solutions are instantly analytic and decay exponentially fast in time to the circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02318

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zbMATH Keywords

equilibriasurface tensionglobal regularityimplicit function theoremMuskat problemfluid interfaceviscosity jump

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong solutions to PDEs (35D35) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86)

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