Liquid Flow in Partially Saturated Porous Media
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
- Vol. 23 (4) , 503-517
- https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/23.4.503
Abstract
We consider a picture for the filtration of a liquid in a partially saturated porous medium, leading to a two-phase one-dimensional free boundary problem of the following type: The liquid pressure satisfies an elliptic equation in the saturated region and a non-linear parabolic equation in the unsaturated region, while pressure and velocity are continuous across the interface. This scheme reduces to the study of the non-linear parabolic free boundary problem in the unsaturated phase with cauchy data prescribed on the free boundary, for such a problem existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence theorems are proved.Keywords
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