On a local solvability of the contact Muskat problem

Abstract

In the paper, we discuss the two-dimensional contact Muskat problem with zero surface tension of a free boundary. The initial shape of the unknown interface is a smooth simple curve which forms acute corners $\delta_{0}$ and $\delta_{1}$ with fixed boundaries. Under suitable assumptions on the given data, the one-to-one local classical solvability of this problem is proved. We also describe the sufficient conditions on the data in the model which provide the existence of the "waiting time" phenomenon.