Existence of Weak Solutions for a General Porous Medium Equation with Nonlocal Pressure

We study the general nonlinear diffusion equation ut = r· (u r(−Δ)−su) that describes a flow through a porous medium which is driven by a nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters m> 1 and 0 <s< 1, we assume that the solutions are non-negative and the problem is posed in the whole...

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Autores: Stan, Diana, del Teso, Félix, Vázquez Suárez, Juan Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/710948
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/710948
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00205-019-01361-0
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nonlinear fractional diffusion
fractional Laplacian
existence of weak solutions
energy estimates
speed of propagation
smoothing effect
numerical simulations
Matemáticas
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Sumario:We study the general nonlinear diffusion equation ut = r· (u r(−Δ)−su) that describes a flow through a porous medium which is driven by a nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters m> 1 and 0 <s< 1, we assume that the solutions are non-negative and the problem is posed in the whole space. In this paper we prove existence of weak solutions for all integrable initial data u0 ≥ 0 and for all exponents m> 1 by developing a new approximation method that allows to treat the range m ≥ 3 that could not be covered by previous works. We also extend the class of initial data to include any non-negative measure μ with finite mass. In passing from bounded initial data to measure data we make strong use of an L1-L∞ smoothing effect and other functional estimates. Finite speed of propagation is established for all m ≥ 2, and this property implies the existence of free boundaries. The authors had already proved that finite propagation does not hold for m< 2