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This paper develops a control and estimation design for the one-phase Stefan problem. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase transition as time evolution of a temperature profile in a liquid-solid material and its moving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

In this paper, a backstepping control of the one-phase Stefan Problem, which is a 1-D diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE), is studied. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Shuxia Tang , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents a control design for the one-phase Stefan problem under actuator delay via a backstepping method. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Shumon Koga , Delphine Bresch-Pietri , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents the control design of the two-phase Stefan problem. The two-phase Stefan problem is a representative model of liquid-solid phase transition by describing the time evolutions of the temperature profile which is divided by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

This paper develops an input-to-state stability (ISS) analysis of the Stefan problem with respect to an unknown heat loss. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Shumon Koga , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

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

The vertical gradient freeze crystal growth process is the main technique for the production of high quality compound semiconductors that are vital for today's electronic applications. A simplified model of this process consists of two 1D…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Stefan Ecklebe , Nicole Gehring

The Stefan PDE system is a representative model for thermal phase change phenomena, such as melting and solidification, arising in numerous science and engineering processes. The mathematical description is given by a Partial Differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

The present article is dedicated to the forward and backward solution of a transient one-phase Stefan problem. In the forward problem, we compute the evolution of the initial domain for a Stefan problem where the melting temperature varies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Marc Dambrine , Helmut Harbrecht

This paper provides an observer-based event-triggered boundary control strategy for the one-phase Stefan problem using the position and velocity measurements of the moving interface. The infinite-dimensional backstepping approach is used to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Bhathiya Rathnayake , Mamadou Diagne

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

This paper presents a safe stabilization of the Stefan PDE model with a moving boundary governed by a high-order dynamics. We consider a parabolic PDE with a time-varying domain governed by a second-order response with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

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

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

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

In this contribution tracking control designs using output feedback are presented for a two-phase Stefan problem arising in the modeling of the Vertical Gradient Freeze process. The two-phase Stefan problem, consisting of two coupled free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Stefan Ecklebe , Frank Woittennek , Jan Winkler , Christiane Frank-Rotsch , Natasha Dropka

We investigate the regulator problem (tracking and disturbance rejection) for a system (plant) described by a boundary controlled anti-stable linear one-dimensional Schrodinger equation, using the backstepping approach. The output to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Hua-Cheng Zhou , George Weiss

The classical one-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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Mahir Hadžić , Steve Shkoller

In this chapter we consider different approximations for the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem corresponding to the fusion process of a semi-infinite material with a temperature boundary condition at the fixed face and non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 Julieta Bollati , María F. Natale , José A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia

This paper addresses the output regulation problem for a one-dimensional unstable wave equation subject to output delay and all-channel disturbances with unknown frequencies and amplitudes. First, this problem is transformed into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Shen Wang , Zhong-Jie Han , Shuangxi Huang , Zhi-Xue Zhao
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