# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2012, 5(1): 93-113. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.93

## Singular limit of a two-phase flow problem in porous medium as the air viscosity tends to zero

 1 CMI, Université de Provence, 39 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie 13453 Marseille cedex 13 2 CNRS and Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Paris-Sud 11, F-91405 Orsay Cedex 3 Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée, 5 bd Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France

Received  June 2009 Revised  December 2009 Published  February 2011

In this paper we consider a two-phase flow problem in porous media and study its singular limit as the viscosity of the air tends to zero; more precisely, we prove the convergence of subsequences to solutions of a generalized Richards model.
Citation: Marie Henry, Danielle Hilhorst, Robert Eymard. Singular limit of a two-phase flow problem in porous medium as the air viscosity tends to zero. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2012, 5 (1) : 93-113. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.93
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