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Two-phase Stokes flow by capillarity in full 2D space: an approach via hydrodynamic potentials

Part of: Miscellaneous topics - Partial differential equations Incompressible viscous fluids Parabolic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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Georg Prokert
Bogdan–Vasile Matioc
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Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Deutschland ([email protected])
Georg Prokert
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands ([email protected])
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Abstract

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We study the two-phase Stokes flow driven by surface tension with two fluids of equal viscosity, separated by an asymptotically flat interface with graph geometry. The flow is assumed to be two-dimensional with the fluids filling the entire space. We prove well-posedness and parabolic smoothing in Sobolev spaces up to critical regularity. The main technical tools are an analysis of nonlinear singular integral operators arising from the hydrodynamic single-layer potential and abstract results on nonlinear parabolic evolution equations.

Keywords

Stokes problemtwo-phasesingular integralscontour integral formulation

MSC classification

Primary: 35R37: Moving boundary problems
Secondary: 76D07: Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows 35K55: Nonlinear parabolic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 151 , Issue 6 , December 2021 , pp. 1815 - 1845
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