Steady-state fingering patterns for a periodic Muskat problem

DOI10.4310/MAA.2013.V20.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ376096zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mats Ehrnström, Joachim Escher, Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Publication date 1 November 2013

Published in Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6724, http://intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/maa/content/vols/0020/0001/a002/index.html

zbMATH Keywords

existencefingering patternsMuskat problemperiodic solutionssteady-state solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B10) Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25)

Abstract: We study global bifurcation branches consisting of stationary solutions of the Muskat problem. It is proved that the steady-state fingering patterns blow up as the surface tension increases: we find a threshold value for the cell height with the property that below this value the fingers will touch the boundaries of the cell when the surface tension approaches a finite value from below; otherwise, the maximal slope of the fingers tends to infinity.

Review text

The Muskat problem describes the evolution of the interface between to immiscible fluids in a porous medium.NEWLINENEWLINEThe aim of this paper is the study of global bifurcation branches consisting of stationary solutions of the Muskat problem.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors show that, for stationary solutions, the problem can be reduced to an ODE with an additional non-local constraint. The proof of this result is based on the study of odd solutions and on the one-to-one correspondence between the odd and the even solutions. It is also proved that there exist infinitely many global bifurcation branches consisting of odd solutions. The behavior of the steady fingers away from the set of trivial solutions is also investigated. The steady-state fingering patterns correspond to certain solutions of the mathematical pendulum.

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