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Hyperbolic evolution equations for moving boundary problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

G. PROKERT
Affiliation:
Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel, Fachbereich 17 Mathematik/Informatik, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34109 Kassel, Germany. E-mail: prokert@mathematik.uni-kassel.de

Abstract

Short-time existence and uniqueness results in Sobolev spaces are proved for Hele-Shaw flow with kinetic undercooling and for Stokes flow without surface tension. In both cases, the flow is driven by arbitrarily distributed sources and sinks in the interior of the liquid domain. The proofs are based on a general approach consisting of the reformulation of the problem as a Cauchy problem for a nonlinear, nonlocal evolution equation on the unit sphere, quasilinearization by equivariance, investigation of the linearization, and Galerkin approximations. In the situation discussed here, the linearized evolution operator is a first-order differential operator, and thus the evolution equation is of hyperbolic type. Finally, a brief survey of the properties of the evolution equations that arise from Hele-Shaw flow and Stokes flow with and without regularization is given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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