Francisco Gancedo

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a two-dimensional viscous fluid evolving through a porous medium or a Hele-Shaw cell, driven by gravity and surface tension. A key feature of this study is that the fluid is confined within a vessel with vertical walls and below a dry region. Consequently, the dynamics of the contact points between the vessel, the fluid and the dry region are inherently coupled with the surface evolution. A similar contact scenario was recently analyzed for more regular viscous flows, modeled by the Stokes (Guo and Tice, Arch Ration Mech Anal 227(2):767–854, 2018) and Navier–Stokes (Guo and Tice, J Eur Math Soc 26(4):1445–1557, 2024) equations. Here, we adopt the same framework but use the more singular Darcy’s law for modeling the flow. We prove global-in-time a priori estimates for solutions initially close to equilibrium. Taking advantage of the Neumann problem solved by the velocity potential, the analysis is carried out in non-weighted $$L^2$$ L 2 -based Sobolev spaces and without imposing restrictions on the contact angles.

In this paper, we prove the first existence result of weak solutions to the 3D Euler equation with initial vorticity concentrated in a circle and velocity field in $$C([0,T],L^{2^-})$$ . The energy becomes finite and decreasing for positive times, with vorticity concentrated in a ring that thickens and moves in the direction of the symmetry axis. With our approach, there is no need to mollify the initial data or to rescale the time variable. We overcome the singularity of the initial data by applying convex integration within the appropriate time-weighted space.

In this paper, we prove the first existence result of weak solutions to the 3D Euler equation with initial vorticity concentrated in a circle and velocity field in $C([0,T],L^{2^-})$. The energy becomes finite and decreasing for positive times, with vorticity concentrated in a ring that thickens and moves in the direction of the symmetry axis. With our approach, there is no need to mollify the initial data or to rescale the time variable. We overcome the singularity of the initial data by applying convex integration within the appropriate time-weighted space.

In this paper we establish the global-in-time well-posedness for an arbitrary $C^{1+γ}$, $0<γ<1$, initial internal wave for the free boundary gravity Stokes system in two dimensions. This classical well-posedness result is complemented with a weak solvability result in the case of $C^γ$ or Lipschitz interfaces. Furthermore, we also propose and study several one-dimensional models that capture different features of the full internal wave problem for the gravity Stokes system and show that all of them present finite time singularities. This fact evidences the fine structure of the non-linearity in the full system that allows for the free boundary problem to be globally well-posed while simplifications of it blow-up in finite time.

This paper studies the Cauchy problem for a helical vortex filament evolving by the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We prove global-in-time well-posedness and smoothing of solutions with initial vorticity concentrated on a helix. We provide a local-in-time well-posedness result for vortex filaments periodic in one spatial direction, and show that solutions with helical initial data preserve this symmetry. We follow the approach of [4], where the analogue local-in-time result has been obtained for closed vortex filaments in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Next, we apply local energy weak solutions theory with a novel estimate for helical functions in non-helical domains to uniquely extend the solutions globally in time. This is the first global-in-time well-posedness result for a vortex filament without size restriction and without vanishing swirl assumptions.

In this paper we paralinearize the contour dynamics equation for sharp-fronts of $α$-SQG, for any $ α\in (0,1) \cup (1,2) $, close to a circular vortex. This turns out to be a quasi-linear Hamiltonian PDE. After deriving the asymptotic expansion of the linear frequencies of oscillations at the vortex disk and verifying the absence of three wave interactions, we prove that, in the most singular cases $ α\in (1,2) $, any initial vortex patch which is $ \varepsilon $-close to the disk exists for a time interval of size at least $ \sim \varepsilon^{-2} $. This quadratic lifespan result relies on a paradifferential Birkhoff normal form reduction and exploits cancellations arising from the Hamiltonian nature of the equation. This is the first normal form long time existence result of sharp fronts.