Renormalization study of two-dimensional convergent solutions of the porous medium equation

Abstract

In the focusing problem we study a solution of the porous medium equation $u_t=\Delta (u^m)$ whose initial distribution is positive in the exterior of a closed non-circular two dimensional region, and zero inside. We implement a numerical scheme that renormalizes the solution each time that the average size of the empty region reduces by a half. The initial condition is a function with circular level sets distorted with a small sinusoidal perturbation of wave number $k\ge 3$. We find that for nonlinearity exponents m smaller than a critical value which depends on k, the solution tends to a self-similar regime, characterized by rounded polygonal interfaces and similarity exponents that depend on m and on the discrete rotational symmetry number k. For m greater than the critical value, the final form of the interface is circular.

26 pages, Latex, 13 ps figures

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