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Free boundary problems appear naturally in numerous areas of mathematics, science and engineering. These problems present a great computational challenge because they necessitate numerical methods that can yield an accurate approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

The heat transfer model for a one-dimensional supercooled melt during the final stage of solidification is considered. The Stefan problem for the determination of the temperature distribution is solved under the condition that (i) the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-27 G. L. Buchbinder , V. A. Volkov

This paper concerns the null controllability of the two-phase 1D Stefan problem with distributed controls. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification or melting processes. In each phase, a parabolic equation, completed with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Raul K. C. Araújo , Enrique Fernández-Cara , Juan Límaco , Diego A. Souza

We consider the problem of recovering the initial condition in the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem for the heat equation from the knowledge of the position of the melting point. We first recall some properties of the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Chifaa Ghanmi , Saloua Mani Aouadi , Faouzi Triki

We prove strong convergence to singular limits for a linearized fully inhomogeneous Stefan problem subject to surface tension and kinetic undercooling effects. Different combinations of $\sigma \to \sigma_0$ and $\delta \to\delta_0$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Juergen Saal , Gieri Simonett

We study the motion of a compressible perfect liquid body in vacuum. This can be thought of as a model for the motion of the ocean or a star. The free surface moves with the velocity of the liquid and the pressure vanishes on the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Hans Lindblad

We study the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions. First, we study general solutions and their irregularities, showing generic fractal freezing and nucleation, based on a novel Markovian gluing principle. In contrast, we then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Sebastian Munoz

We establish the local-in-time well-posedness of classical solutions to the vacuum free boundary problem of the viscous Saint-Venant system for shallow waters derived rigorously from incompressible Navier-Stokes system with a moving free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Hai-Liang Li , Yuexun Wang , Zhouping Xin

We provide a complete local well-posedness theory in $H^s$ based Sobolev spaces for the free boundary incompressible Euler equations with zero surface tension on a connected fluid domain. Our well-posedness theory includes: (i) Local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Mihaela Ifrim , Ben Pineau , Daniel Tataru , Mitchell A. Taylor

Many metal manufacturing processes involve phase change phenomena, which include melting, boiling, and vaporization. These phenomena often occur concurrently. A prototypical 1D model for understanding the phase change phenomena is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Yavkreet Swami , Jacob Barajas , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

The Stefan problem with surface tension is well known to exhibit discontinuities in the associated moving aggregate (i.e., in the domain occupied by the solid), whose structure has only been understood under translational or radial symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yucheng Guo , Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

A two-phase solidification process for a one-dimensional semi-infinite material is considered. It is assumed that it is ensued from a constant bulk temperature present in the vicinity of the fixed boundary, which it is modelled through a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Andrea N. Ceretani , Domingo A. Tarzia

We study the free boundary Euler equations in two spatial dimensions. We prove that if the boundary is sufficiently regular, then solutions of the free boundary fluid motion converge to solutions of the Euler equations in a fixed domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Marcelo M. Disconzi , David G. Ebin

We consider an interface with surface tension that separates a perfectly conducting inviscid fluid from a vacuum. The fluid flow is governed by the equations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), while the electric and magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Yuri Trakhinin

We consider the Muskat problem with surface tension for one fluid or two fluids, with or without viscosity jump, with infinite depth or Lipschitz rigid boundaries, and in arbitrary dimension $d$ of the interface. The problem is nonlocal,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Huy Q. Nguyen

We study the solutions of the one-phase supercooled Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling, which describes the freezing of a supercooled liquid, in one spatial dimension. Assuming that the initial temperature lies between the equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Graeme Baker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

In this article we consider a mathematical model of an initial stage of closure electrical contact that involves a metallic vaporization after instantaneous exploding of contact due to arc ignition with power $P_0$ on fixed face $z=0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 T. A. Nauryz

We prove existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the two-phase Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law where the free interface forms a ninety degree contact angle with the fixed boundary. We also discuss existence of global solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Maximilian Rauchecker

We prove that traveling waves in viscous compressible liquids are a generic phenomenon. The setting for our result is a horizontally infinite, finite depth layer of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid, modeled by the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

In this paper we consider two different Stefan problems for a semi-infinite material for the non classical heat equation with a source which depends on the heat flux at the fixed face x = 0. One of them (with constant temperature on x = 0)…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julieta Bollati , Maria F. Natale , Jose A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia