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September  2012, 17(6): 1685-1691. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.1685

## Self-similar focusing in porous media: An explicit calculation

 1 Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States

Received  October 2010 Revised  December 2011 Published  May 2012

We consider a porous medium flow in which the material is initially distributed in the exterior of an empty region (a hole) and study the final stage of the hole-filling process as well as the initial stage of the post filling regime. It is known that in axially symmetric flow the hole-filling is asymptotically described by a self-similar solution which depends on a constant determined by the initial distribution. The post filling accumulation process is also locally described by a self-similar solution which in turn is characterized by a constant. In general, these constants must be found either experimentally or numerically. Here we present an example of a one-dimensional flow where the constants are obtained explicitly.
Citation: D. G. Aronson. Self-similar focusing in porous media: An explicit calculation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2012, 17 (6) : 1685-1691. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.1685
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##### References:
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