The Muskat problem models the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible immiscible fluids with different constant densities. In this work we prove three results. First we prove an $L^2\left(ℝ\right)$ maximum principle, in the form of a new “log” conservation law which is satisfied by the equation (1) for the interface. Our second result is a proof of global existence for unique strong solutions if the initial data is smaller than an explicitly computable constant, for instance ${∥f∥}_1\le 1/5$. Previous results of this...

We show that the equation div $u=f$ has, in general, no Lipschitz (respectively $W^{1,1}$) solution if $f$ is $C^0$ (respectively $L^1$).