$L^1-$Theory for Incompressible Limit of Reaction-Diffusion Porous Medium Flow with Linear Drift

TL;DR

This paper investigates the limit behavior of reaction-diffusion porous medium equations with linear drift as the nonlinearity parameter tends to infinity, establishing convergence to a Hele-Shaw type flow using new BV estimates.

Contribution

It introduces novel BV estimates to prove uniform L^1 convergence of solutions to a Hele-Shaw flow with linear drift as the porous medium exponent grows.

Findings

Established uniform L^1 convergence to Hele-Shaw flow

Developed new BV estimates for reaction-diffusion equations

Analyzed the problem in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions

Abstract

Our aim is to study the limit of the solution of reaction-diffusion porous medium equation with linear drift $\displaystyle\partial_t u -\Delta u^m +\nabla \cdot (u \: V)=g(t,x,u) $, as $m\to\infty.$ We study the problem in bounded domain $\Omega$ with Dirichlet boundary condition, compatible initial data ; i.e. $\vert u_0\vert \leq 1,$ and an outpointing vector field $V$ on the boundary $\partial \Omega.$ In particular, by means of new $BV_{loc}$ estimates, we show uniform $L^1-$convergence towards the solution of reaction-diffusion Hele-Shaw flow with linear drift.