Porous medium equation with nonlocal pressure

Abstract

We provide a rather complete description of the results obtained so far on the nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t=\nabla \cdot (u^{m-1}\nabla (-\Delta {)}^{-s}u)$, which describes a flow through a porous medium driven by a nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters $m>1$ and $0<s<1$, we assume that the solutions are non-negative, and the problem is posed in the whole space. We present a theory of existence of solutions, results on uniqueness, and relation to other models. As new results of this paper, we prove the existence of self-similar solutions in the range when $N=1$ and $m>2$, and the asymptotic behavior of solutions when $N=1$. The cases $m=1$ and $m=2$ were rather well known.

24 pages, 2 figures