A gradient flow approach to a thin film approximation of the Muskat problem

By Philippe Laurençot, Bogdan–Vasile Matioc. 2011

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A fully coupled system of two second-order parabolic degenerate equations arising as a thin film approximation to the Muskat problem is interpreted as a gradient flow for the 2-Wasserstein distance in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational scheme is then set up and is the starting point of the construction of weak solutions. The availability of two Liapunov functionals turns out to be a central tool to obtain the needed regularity to identify the Euler–Lagrange equation in the variational scheme.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Finance

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