H-principle for the 2D incompressible porous media equation with viscosity jump

Abstract

In this work we extend the results in [6,32] on the 2D IPM system with constant viscosity (Atwood number $A_{\mu}=0$) to the case of viscosity jump ($|A_{\mu}|<1$). We prove a h-principle whereby (infinitely many) weak solutions in $C_tL_{w^*}^{\infty}$ are recovered via convex integration whenever a subsolution is provided. As a first example, non-trivial weak solutions with compact support in time are obtained. Secondly, we construct mixing solutions to the unstable Muskat problem with initial flat interface. As a byproduct, we check that the connection, established by Sz\'ekelyhidi for $A_{\mu}=0$, between the subsolution and the Lagrangian relaxed solution of Otto, holds for $|A_{\mu}|<1$ too. For different viscosities, we show how a pinch singularity in the relaxation prevents the two fluids from mixing wherever there is neither Rayleigh-Taylor nor vorticity at the interface.