Existence, uniqueness and regularity of the free boundary in the Hele-Shaw problem with a degenerate phase
Author(s) -
Ivan Blank,
M. Korten,
Charles N. Moore
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
contemporary mathematics - american mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1098-3627
pISSN - 0271-4132
DOI - 10.1090/conm/428/08208
Subject(s) - uniqueness , mathematics , degenerate energy levels , boundary (topology) , hele shaw flow , boundary problem , free boundary problem , phase (matter) , mathematical analysis , pure mathematics , flow (mathematics) , geometry , physics , open channel flow , quantum mechanics
The Hele-Shaw model describes the flow of a viscous fluid being injected into a slot between two nearby plates. It is used in injection molding for the production of packaging materials and the interior plastic parts of cars and airplanes, in electromechanical machining, and to study the diffusion of nutrients and medicines within certain tumors. We obtain the unique weak solution to the Hele-Shaw problem with a mushy zone as the (pointwise) “Mesa” type limit of solutions to one-phase Stefan problems with increasing diffusivities, and fixed initial and boundary data and discuss results on the regularity of the free boundary in space.
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