Accepted Paper

Inserted: 26 jul 2024
Last Updated: 23 sep 2025

Journal: Nonlinear Analysis
Year: 2025

Abstract:

We present regularity results for nonlinear drift-diffusion equations of porous medium type (together with their incompressible limit). We relax the assumptions imposed on the drift term with respect to previous results and additionally study the effect of linear diffusion on our regularity result (a scenario of particular interest in the incompressible case, for it represents the motion of particles driven by a Brownian motion subject to a density constraint). Specifically, this work concerns the $L^4$-summability of the pressure gradient in porous medium flows with drifts that is stable with respect to the exponent of the nonlinearity, and $L^2$-estimates on the pressure Hessian (in particular, in the incompressible case with linear diffusion we prove that the pressure is the positive part of an $H^2$-function).

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