Mathematical Problems in Mechanics
Finite speed of propagation in porous media by mass transportation methods
[Finitude de la vitesse de propagation dans des milieux poreux en utilisant des techniques de transport de masse]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 338 (2004) no. 10, pp. 815-818.

Dans cette Note nous utilisons des techniques de transport de masse pour donner une preuve élémentaire de la finitude de la vitesse de propagation des solutions de l'équation mono-dimensionnelle des milieux poreux. Le résultat repose sur la preuve de la propriété suivante : la différence du support entre deux solutions quelconques correspondant à des données initiales à support compact différentes est une fonction, bornée en temps, d'une métrique de Monge–Kantorovitch appropriée.

In this Note we make use of mass transportation techniques to give a simple proof of the finite speed of propagation of the solution to the one-dimensional porous medium equation. The result follows by showing that the difference of support of any two solutions corresponding to different compactly supported initial data is a bounded in time function of a suitable Monge–Kantorovich related metric.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2004.03.025
Carrillo, José Antonio 1 ; Gualdani, Maria Pia 2 ; Toscani, Giuseppe 3

1 Departament de Matemàtiques – ICREA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2 Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 9, 55099 Mainz, Germany
3 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Carrillo, José Antonio; Gualdani, Maria Pia; Toscani, Giuseppe. Finite speed of propagation in porous media by mass transportation methods. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 338 (2004) no. 10, pp. 815-818. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2004.03.025. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2004.03.025/

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Work partially supported by EEC network # HPRN-CT-2002-00282, by the bilateral project Azioni integrate Italia–Spagna, by the DFG Project JU359/5, by the Vigoni Project CRUI-DAAD and by the Spanish DGI-MCYT/FEDER project BFM2002-01710.