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In this paper we consider a free boundary problem for the melting of ice where we assume that the heat is transported by conduction in both the liquid and the solid part of the material and also by radiation in the solid. Specifically, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

A mathematical model for a one-phase change problem (particularly a Stefan problem) with a memory flux, is obtained. The hypothesis that the weighted sum of fluxes back in time is proportional to the gradient of temperature is considered.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Sabrina Roscani , Julieta Bollati , Domingo Tarzia

We assume that the Stefan problem with undercooling has a classical solution until the moment of contact of free boundaries and the free boundaries have continuous velocities until the moment of contact. Under these assumptions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. G. Danilov , V. Yu. Rudnev

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

Two Stefan's problems for the diffusion fractional equation are solved, where the fractional derivative of order $ \al \in (0,1) $ is taken in the Caputo's sense. The first one has a constant condition on $ x = 0 $ and the second presents a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Sabrina Roscani , Eduardo A. Santillan Marcus

This paper presents results for the sampled-data boundary feedback control to the Stefan problem. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's temperature profile…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Shumon Koga , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

A new solution to the mono-dimensional diffusion equation for time-variable first kind boundary condition is presented where the time-variable function at the surface is derived proposing a surface saturation model. This solution may be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-08 Guglielmo Macrelli

We consider the one-phase Stefan problem describing the evolution of melting ice. On the one hand, we focus on understanding the evolution of the free boundary near isolated singular points, and we establish for the first time upper and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Gabriele Fioravanti , Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

We are concerned with the nonlinear problem $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$, where $f$ is of combustion type, coupled with the Stefan-type free boundary $h(t)$. According to [4,5], for some critical initial data, the transition solution $u$ locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Chengxia Lei , Hiroshi Matsuzawa , Rui Peng , Maolin Zhou

One-dimensional free boundary problem for a nonlinear diffusion - convection equation with a Dirichlet condition at fixed face $x=0$, variable in time, is considered. Throught several transformations the problem is reduced to a free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Adriana C. Briozzo , Domingo A. Tarzia

In this paper, we formulate a continuum theory of solidification within the context of finite-strain coupled thermoelasticity. We aim to fill a gap in the existing literature, as the existing studies on solidification typically decouple the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-23 Satya Prakash Pradhan , Arash Yavari

Consider the steady Boltzmann equation with slab symmetry for a monatomic, hard sphere gas in a half space. At the boundary of the half space, it is assumed that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. The present paper discusses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Niclas Bernhoff , François Golse

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

Recently, we have proposed a new free boundary problem representing the bread baking process in a hot oven. Unknown functions in this problem are the position of the evaporation front, the temperature field and the water content. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Toyohiko Aiki , Hana Kakiuchi

We consider a free boundary problem for the heat equation with a given non-negative external heat source. On the free boundary, we impose the zero Dirichlet condition and the fixed normal derivative so that heat escapes from the boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Ken Furukawa , Yoshikazu Giga , Naoto Kajiwara

Approximate analytical solution of two dimensional problem for stationary Navier-Stokes, continuity and Fourier-Kirchhoff equations describing free convective heat transfer from isothermal surface of half infinite vertical plate is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-23 Sergey Leble , Witold M. Lewandowski

We develop a mathematical model for a three-phase free boundary problem in one dimension that involves the interactions between gas, water and ice. The dynamics are driven by melting of the ice layer, while the pressurized gas also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Maurizio Ceseri , John M. Stockie

We study the situation in which the distribution of temperature a body is due to its interaction with radiation. We consider the boundary value problem for the stationary radiative transfer equation under the assumption of the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

Mixed convection above a horizontal disk rotating in a semi-infinite fluid is examined when the disk is heated so that its temperature varies quadratically with distance away from its centre. Steady similarity solutions are presented for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-19 Jorge Arrieta-Sanagustin , Mark G. Blyth

The detailed mathematical model of heat and mass transfer of steel ingot of curvilinear continuous casting machine is proposed. The process of heat and mass transfer is described by nonlinear partial differential equations of parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-25 Anna Ivanova