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Ice melting into saline water plays a fundamental role in the dynamics near the ice-ocean interface in polar oceans. The physics of ice melting involves a non-trivial interplay between thermodynamics at the interface, hydrodynamic transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sofía Allende , Louis-Alexandre Couston , Simon Thalabard , Benjamin Favier

We study the evolution of a melting front between the solid and liquid phases of a pure incompressible material where fluid motions are driven by unstable temperature gradients. In a plane layer geometry, this can be seen as classical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-15 Benjamin Favier , Jhaswantsing Purseed , Laurent Duchemin

This paper is devoted to studying the inflow problem for an ideal polytropic model with non-viscous gas in one-dimensional half space. We showed the existence of the boundary layer in different areas. By employing the energy method, we also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Meichen Hou , Lili Fan

The one-dimensional (1D) Stefan problem is a prototypical heat and mass transfer problem that analyzes the temperature distribution in a material undergoing phase change. In addition, it describes the evolution of the phase change front…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mehran Soleimani , Kimmo Koponen , Nils Tilton , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

We study the Stefan problem with surface tension and radially symmetric initial data. In this context, the notion of a so-called physical solution, which exists globally despite the inherent blow-ups of the melting rate, has been recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Yucheng Guo , Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

In this paper we establish the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the free boundary problem of the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in three-dimensional space. The vanishing density and temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Xin Liu , Yuan Yuan

We study the motion of phase interfaces in a diffusive lattice equation with bistable nonlinearity and derive a free boundary problem with hysteresis to describe the macroscopic evolution in the parabolic scaling limit. The first part of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Michael Helmers , Michael Herrmann

Boundary conditions for the solid-liquid interface of the solidifying pure melt have been derived. In the derivation the model of Gibbs interface is used. The boundary conditions include both the state quantities of bulk phases are taken at…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Gennady Buchbinder , Peter Galenko

We present a mesoscopic model, based on the Boltzmann Equation, for the interaction between a solid wall and a non-ideal fluid. We present an analytic derivation of the contact angle in terms of the surface tension between the liquid-gas,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia , S. Succi , F. Toschi

We study self-similar solutions of a multi-phase Stefan problem for a heat equation on the half-line $x>0$ with a constant initial data and with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. In the case of Dirichlet boundary condition we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 E. Yu. Panov

The dissolution of solids has created spectacular geomorphologies ranging from centimeter-scale cave scallops to the kilometer-scale "stone forests" of China and Madagascar. Mathematically, dissolution processes are modeled by a Stefan…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-08 Jinzi Mac Huang , Michael J. Shelley , David B. Stein

The role of thermal relaxation in nanoparticle melting is studied using a mathematical model based on the Maxwell--Cattaneo equation for heat conduction. The model is formulated in terms of a two-phase Stefan problem. We consider the cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Matthew G. Hennessy , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwälder , Timothy G. Myers

In this paper, we consider a diffuse-interface gas-liquid two-phase flow model with inhomogeneous temperatures, in which we employ the Peng-Robinson equation of state and the temperature-dependent influence parameter instead of the van der…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

We investigate the self-bound states of dipolar Dy condensates with the Gaussian-state ansatz which improves the conventional coherent-state ansatz with multimode squeezed coherent states. We show that the self-bound states consist of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-21 Yuqi Wang , Longfei Guo , Su Yi , Tao Shi

This paper studies a two-phase free boundary problem governed by the ElectroHydroDynamic equations, which describes a perfectly conducting, incompressible, irrotational fluid with gravity, surrounded by a dielectric gas. The interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Lili Du , Yuanhong Zhao

A melting transition for a system of hard spheres interacting by a repulsive Yukawa potential of DLVO form is studied. To find the location of the phase boundary, we propose a simple theory to calculate the free energies for the coexisting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 P. S. Kuhn , A. Diehl , Y. Levin , M. C. Barbosa

We study a class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems with random boundaries as a microscopic model for Stefan's melting and freezing problem. We prove that under diffusive rescaling these particle systems exhibit a hydrodynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Landim , Glauco Valle

From the one-dimensional consolidation of fine-grained soils with threshold gradient, it can be derived a special type of Stefan problems where the seepage front, due to the presence of this threshold gradient, exhibits the features of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Julieta Bollati , Domingo A. Tarzia

We discuss a numerical method for convection-diffusion-reaction problems with a free boundary in 1D. The method is based on the numerical modelling of the interface evolution, the transformation to a fixed domain problem and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Gabriela Kacurova

The kinetics of interfaces in alloy solidification pose a classic free boundary problem. This paper introduces an approach that amalgamates the distinctive characteristics of sharp and diffuse interface models. The motion of the diffuse…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-31 Chuanqi Zhu , Yuichiro Koizumi