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Publications (41)

math.AP2012

An aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion: qualitative property of solutions

Lincoln Chayes, Inwon Kim, Yao Yao

We study a nonlocal aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion, set in a periodic domain. This equation represents the generalization to of the McKean-Vlasov equation w…

math.AP2016

Congested aggregation via Newtonian interaction

Katy Craig, Inwon Kim, Yao Yao

We consider a congested aggregation model that describes the evolution of a density through the competing effects of nonlocal Newtonian attraction and a hard height constraint. Thi…

math.AP2019

On mean curvature flow with forcing

Inwon Kim, Dohyun Kwon

This paper investigates geometric properties and well-posedness of a mean curvature flow with volume-dependent forcing. With the class of forcing which bounds the volume of the evo…

math.AP2022

A Hele-Shaw limit without monotonicity

Nestor Guillen, Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet

We study the incompressible limit of the porous medium equation with a right hand side representing either a source or a sink term, and an injection boundary condition. This model…

math.AP2020

The -contraction principle in optimal transport

Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim, Jiajun Tong

In this work, we use the JKO scheme to approximate a general class of diffusion problems generated by Darcy's law. Although the scheme is now classical, if the energy density is sp…

math.AP2022

Density-constrained Chemotaxis and Hele-Shaw flow

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet, Yijing Wu

We consider a model of congestion dynamics with chemotaxis, where the density of cells follows the chemical signal it generates, while observing an incompressibility constraint. We…

math.AP2009

Global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a model of price formation

Lincoln Chayes, Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Maria Pia Gualdani +1

We study a model due to J.M. Lasry and P.L. Lions, describing the evolution of a scalar price which is realized as a free boundary in a 1-D diffusion equation with dynamically evol…

math.AP2025

The supercooled Stefan problem: fractal freezing and the fine structure of maximal solutions

Raymond Chu, Inwon Kim, Sebastian Munoz

We study the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions. First, we study general solutions and their irregularities, showing generic fractal freezing and nucleation, based…

math.AP2022

Incompressible limit of porous medium equation with bistable and monostable reaction terms

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet

We study the incompressible limit of the porous medium equation with a reaction term that is non-monotone with respect to the pressure variable. More specifically we consider react…

math.AP2020

Darcy's Law with a Source term

Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim, Jiajun Tong

We introduce a novel variant of the JKO scheme to approximate Darcy's law with a pressure dependent source term. By introducing a new variable that implicitly controls the source t…

math.AP2024

The Nonlocal Stefan Problem via a Martingale Transport

Raymond Chu, Inwon Kim, Young-Heon Kim +1

We study the nonlocal Stefan problem, where the phase transition is described by a nonlocal diffusion as well as the change of enthalpy functions. By using a stochastic optimizatio…

math.AP2020

Porous Medium Equation with A Drift: Free boundary Regularity

Inwon Kim, Yuming Paul Zhang

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the regularity of the free boundary,…

math.AP2012

Liquid drops sliding down an inclined plane

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet

We investigate a one-dimensional model describing the motion of liquid drops sliding down an inclined plane (the so-called quasi-static approximation model). We prove existence and…

math.AP2024

Mean Field Limit for Congestion Dynamics in One Dimension

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet, Jeremy Sheung-Him Wu

This paper addresses congested transport, which can be described, at macroscopic scales, by a continuity equation with a pressure variable generated from the hard-congestion constr…

math.AP2018

On nonlinear cross-diffusion systems: an optimal transport approach

Inwon Kim, Alpár R. Mészáros

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flo…

math.AP2014

A drift approximation for parabolic PDEs with oblique boundary data

Damon Alexander, Inwon Kim

We consider solutions of a quasi-linear parabolic PDE with zero oblique boundary data in a bounded domain. Our main result states that the solutions can be approximated by solution…

math.AP2022

Tumor Growth with Nutrients: Regularity and Stability

Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim, Jiajun Tong

In this paper we study a tumor growth model with nutrients. The model presents dynamic patch solutions due to the contact inhibition among the tumor cells. We show that when the nu…

math.AP2020

Well-posedness and Regularity for a Polyconvex Energy

Wilfrid Gangbo, Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim

We prove the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of minimizers of a polyconvex functional in two and three dimensions, which corresponds to the projection of measure-preser…

math.AP2014

Quantitative Homogenization of Elliptic PDE with Random Oscillatory Boundary Data

William M. Feldman, Inwon Kim, Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We study the averaging behavior of nonlinear uniformly elliptic partial differential equations with random Dirichlet or Neumann boundary data oscillating on a small scale. Under co…

math.AP2019

Homogenization of oblique boundary value problems

Sunhi Choi, Inwon Kim

We consider a nonlinear Neumann problem, with periodic oscillation in the elliptic operator and on the boundary condition. Our focus is on problems posed in half-spaces, but with g…

math.AP2010

Two phase Stefan-type problem: Regularization near initial data by phase dynamics

Sunhi Choi, Inwon Kim

We investigate the regularizing behavior of two-phase Stefan problem near initial data. The main step in the analysis is to establish that in any given scale, the scaled solution i…

math.AP2017

Singular limit of the porous medium equation with a drift

Inwon Kim, Norbert Požár, Brent Woodhouse

We study the "stiff pressure limit" of a nonlinear drift-diffusion equation, where the density is constrained to stay below the maximal value one. The challenge lies in the presenc…

math.AP2013

Quasi-static evolution and congested crowd transport

Damon Alexander, Inwon Kim, Yao Yao

We consider the relationship between Hele-Shaw evolution with drift, the porous medium equation with superharmonic drift, and a congested crowd motion model originally proposed by…

math.AP2024

Regularity of Hele-Shaw Flow with source and drift

Inwon Kim, Yuming Paul Zhang

In this paper we study the regularity property of Hele-Shaw flow, where source and drift are present in the evolution. More specifically we consider Hölder continuous source and L…

math.AP2022

Tumor growth with nutrients: stability of the tumor patches

Inwon Kim, Jona Lelmi

In this paper, we study a tumor growth model with nutrients. The contact inhibition for the tumor cells, presented in the model, results in the evolution of a congested tumor patch…

math.AP2011

The Patlak-Keller-Segel model and its variations: properties of solutions via maximum principle

Inwon Kim, Yao Yao

In this paper we investigate qualitative and asymptotic behavior of solutions for a class of diffusion-aggregation equations. Most results except the ones in section 3 and 6 concer…

math.AP2020

On volume-preserving crystalline mean curvature flow

Inwon Kim, Dohyun Kwon, Norbert Požár

In this work we consider the global existence of volume-preserving crystalline curvature flow in a non-convex setting. We show that a natural geometric property, associated with re…

math.AP2015

Porous medium equation to Hele-Shaw flow with general initial density

Inwon Kim, Norbert Pozar

In this paper we study the "stiff pressure limit" of the porous medium equation, where the initial density is a bounded, integrable function with a sufficient decay at infinity. Ou…

math.AP2020

Interface Dynamics in a Two-phase Tumor Growth Model

Inwon Kim, Jiajun Tong

We study a tumor growth model in two space dimensions, where proliferation of the tumor cells leads to expansion of the tumor domain and migration of surrounding normal tissues int…

math.AP2018

Volume preserving mean curvature flow for star-shaped sets

Inwon Kim, Dohyun Kwon

We study the evolution of star-shaped sets in volume preserving mean curvature flow. Constructed by approximate minimizing movements, our solutions preserve a strong version of sta…

math.AP2013

Homogenization for nonlinear PDEs in general domains with oscillatory Neumann boundary data

Sunhi Choi, Inwon Kim

In this article we investigate averaging properties of fully nonlinear PDEs in bounded domains with oscillatory Neumann boundary data. The oscillation is periodic and is present bo…

math.AP2013

Quasistatic Droplet percolation

Nestor Guillen, Inwon Kim

We consider the Hele-Shaw problem in a randomly perforated domain with zero Neumann boundary conditions. A homogenization limit is obtained as the characteristic scale of the domai…

math.AP2025

Regularity of the free boundary for the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions

Max Engelstein, Inwon Kim, Sebastian Munoz

We study the free boundary in the supercooled Stefan problem, a classical model for the solidification of water below its freezing temperature. In contrast with the melting problem…

math.AP2018

Head and tail speeds of mean curvature flow with forcing

Hongwei Gao, Inwon Kim

In this paper, we investigate the large time behavior of interfaces moving with motion law , where is positive, Lipschitz and -periodic. It turns o…

math.AP2017

Uniform convergence for the incompressible limit of a tumor growth model

Inwon Kim, Olga Turanova

We study a model introduced by Perthame and Vauchelet that describes the growth of a tumor governed by Brinkman's Law, which takes into account friction between the tumor cells. We…

math.AP2023

Free boundary regularity for tumor growth with nutrients and diffusion

Carson Collins, Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim

In this paper, we study a tumor growth model where the growth is driven by nutrient availability and the tumor expands according to Darcy's law with a mechanical pressure resulting…

math.AP2024

Aggregation-diffusion phenomena: from microscopic models to free boundary problems

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet, Jeremy Sheung-Him Wu

This paper reviews (and expands) some recent results on the modeling of aggregation-diffusion phenomena at various scales, focusing on the emergence of collective dynamics as a res…

math.AP2022

A density-constrained model for Chemotaxis

Inwon Kim, Antoine Mellet, Yijing Wu

We consider a model of congestion dynamics with chemotaxis: The density of cells follows a chemical signal it generates, while subject to an incompressibility constraint. The incom…

math.AP2025

On the singular limit of Brinkman's law to Darcy's law

Noemi David, Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim

In this paper we study singular limits of congestion-averse growth models, connecting different models describing the effect of congestion. These models arise in particular in the…

math.AP2017

Regularity Properties of Degenerate Diffusion Equations with Drifts

Inwon Kim, Yuming Zhang

This paper considers a class of nonlinear, degenerate drift- diffusion equations. We study well-posedness and regularity properties of the solutions, with the goal to achieve unifo…

math.AP2020

Weak solutions to the Muskat problem with surface tension via optimal transport

Matt Jacobs, Inwon Kim, Alpár R. Mészáros

Inspired by recent works on the threshold dynamics scheme for multi-phase mean curvature flow (by Esedoglu-Otto and Laux-Otto), we introduce a novel framework to approximate soluti…