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We study the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem associated to a phase transition modeled upon the degenerate two-phase Stefan problem. We prove that weak solutions are continuous up to the parabolic boundary and quantify the continuity by deriving a…

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This study is devoted to proving the existence of weak solutions for a nonlinear elliptic problem with Neumann-type boundary data. The problem is driven by a discontinuous power nonlinearity and a nonsmooth prescribed data. Additionally, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Debajyoti Choudhuri , Dušan D. Repovš , Kamel Saoudi

In this paper, we study a second order variational problem for locally convex hypersurfaces, which is the affine invariant analogue of the classical Plateau problem for minimal surfaces. We prove existence, regularity and uniqueness results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Neil S. Trudinger , Xu-Jia Wang

A logarithmic type modulus of continuity is established for weak solutions to a two-phase Stefan problem, up to the parabolic boundary of a cylindrical space-time domain. For the Dirichlet problem, we merely assume that the spatial domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Naian Liao

The classical Stefan problem, concerning mere heat-transfer during solid-liquid phase transition, is here enhanced towards mechanical effects. The Eulerian description at large displacements is used with convective and Zaremba-Jaumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tomáš Roubíček

Solving the Stefan problem, also referred as the heat conduction problem with phase change, is a necessary step to solve phase change problems with convection. In this article, we are interested in using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Francky Luddens , Corentin Lothodé , Ionut Danaila

We study the regularity of the bounded self-similar solution to the one-phase Stefan problem with fractional diffusion posed on the whole line. In terms of the enthalpy $h(x,t)$, the evolution problem reads \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t h +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Marcos Llorca , Juan Luis Vázquez

We study a nonlocal version of the one-phase Stefan problem which develops mushy regions, even if they were not present initially, a model which can be of interest at the mesoscopic scale. The equation involves a convolution with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Cristina Brändle , Emmanuel Chasseigne , Fernando Quirós

The (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear boundary value problem, modeling the process of melting and evaporation of metals, is studied by means of the classical Lie symmetry method. All possible Lie operators of the nonlinear heat equation, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 Roman Cherniha , Sergii Kovalenko

We study steady solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation with hard-sphere interactions in a slab geometry. Under a spatial symmetry assumption in the transverse variables $x_2$ and $x_3$, the problem reduces to a one-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jin Woo Jang , Seok-Bae Yun

We introduce and analyze a nonlocal version of the one-phase Stefan problem in which, as in the classical model, the rate of growth of the volume of the liquid phase is proportional to the rate at which energy is lost through the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Carmen Cortázar , Fernando Quirós , Noemí Wolanski

We consider solving the surface Helmholtz equation on a smooth two dimensional surface embedded into a three dimensional space meshed with tetrahedra. The mesh does not respect the surface and thus the surface cuts through the elements. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

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

Bulk-surface systems on evolving domains are studied. Such problems appear typically from modelling receptor-ligand dynamics in biological cells. Our first main result is the global existence and boundedness of solutions in all dimensions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott , Bao Quoc Tang

We consider a family of multi-phase Stefan problems for a certain 1-d model of cell-to-cell adhesion and diffusion, which takes the form of a nonlinear forward-backward parabolic equation. In each material phase the cell density stays…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-04 K. Anguige

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the convection problem on a surface based on continuous piecewise linear approximation and gradient jump stabilization terms. The discrete piecewise linear surface cuts through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

Modeling of a wide class of physical phenomena, such as crystal growth and flame propagation, leads to tracking fronts moving with curvature-dependent speed. When the speed is the curvature this leads to one of the classical degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

The two-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain, composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gustavo Navarro , Steve Shkoller

We formulate and solve a free target optimal Brownian stopping problem from a given distribution while the target distribution is free and is conditioned to satisfy a given density height constraint. The free target optimization problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Inwon C. Kim , Young-Heon Kim

We study the regularity and well-posedness of physical solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem. Assuming only that the initial temperature is integrable, we prove that the free boundary, known to have jump discontinuities as a function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sebastian Munoz