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Nonlinear Stability of 3D Muskat Bubbles
Abstract
This paper studies the three-dimensional Muskat problem for two immiscible fluids in a porous medium subject to gravity and surface tension. We consider the setting in which one fluid forms a bounded bubble surrounded by the other. For any value of the physical parameters, we prove the global-in-time nonlinear asymptotic stability of a translating spherical bubble for small initial perturbations in the critical Lipschitz class. This enlarges the class of critical spaces considered in previous two-dimensional bubble results. The proof combines spectral analysis of the linearized operator on 𝕊2 with multilinear singular integral estimates that exploit a crucial null structure in the nonlinear terms.
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BibTeX
@misc{gancedo2026nonlinear,
title = {{Nonlinear Stability of 3D Muskat Bubbles}},
author = {Francisco Gancedo and Eduardo García-Juárez and Susanna V. Haziot and Neel Patel and Robert M. Strain},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.30197},
eprint = {2609.30197},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30197},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Nonlinear Stability of 3D Muskat Bubbles
AU - Francisco Gancedo
AU - Eduardo García-Juárez
AU - Susanna V. Haziot
AU - Neel Patel
AU - Robert M. Strain
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.30197
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30197
AB - This paper studies the three-dimensional Muskat problem for two immiscible fluids in a porous medium subject to gravity and surface tension. We consider the setting in which one fluid forms a bounded bubble surrounded by the other. For any value of the physical parameters, we prove the global-in-time nonlinear asymptotic stability of a translating spherical bubble for small initial perturbations in the critical Lipschitz class. This enlarges the class of critical spaces considered in previous two-dimensional bubble results. The proof combines spectral analysis of the linearized operator on 𝕊^2 with multilinear singular integral estimates that exploit a crucial null structure in the nonlinear terms.
ER -