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The Stefan problem is a classical free-boundary problem that models phase-change processes and poses computational challenges due to its moving interface and nonlinear temperature-phase coupling. In this work, we develop a physics-informed…

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This paper addresses boundary prescribed-time stabilization of a one-dimensional heat equation with spatially and temporally varying coefficients. In contrast to asymptotic or exponential stabilization, prescribed-time stabilization ensures…

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Using the backstepping design, we achieve exponential stabilization of the coupled Saint-Venant-Exner (SVE) PDE model of water dynamics in a sediment-filled canal with arbitrary values of canal bottom slope, friction, porosity, and…

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In this paper, we consider the exponential stabilization and observation of an unstable heat equation in a general multi-dimensional domain by combining the finite-dimensional spectral truncation technique and the recently developed…

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In this paper, a one-phase Stefan-type problem for a semi-infinite material which has as its main feature a variable latent heat that depends on the power of the position and the velocity of the moving boundary is studied. Exact solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Julieta Bollati , Domingo A. Tarzia

Stabilization of a coupled system consisting of a parabolic partial differential equation and an elliptic partial differential equation is considered. Even in the situation when the parabolic equation is exponentially stable on its own, the…

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In this paper, we design an output-feedback controller to stabilize n +m hetero-directional transport partial differential equations (PDEs) coupled on both domain boundaries to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This class of systems…

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In this paper, we analyze the output stabilization problem for cascaded nonlinear ODE with $1-d$ heat diffusion equation affected by both in-domain and boundary perturbations. We assume that the only available part of states is the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Abdallah Ben Abdallah , Mohsen Dlala

A one-phase Stefan problem for a semi-infinite material is investigated for special functional forms of the thermal conductivity and specific heat depending on the temperature of the phase-change material. Using the similarity…

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In this paper, we derive a thermodynamically consistent non-isothermal diffuse interface model for phase transition and interface evolution involving heat transfer. This model is constructed by integrating concepts from classical…

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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

We develop a non-collocated, observer-based output-feedback law for a class of continua of linear hyperbolic PDE systems, which are viewed as the continuum version of $n+m$, general heterodirectional hyperbolic systems as $n\to\infty$. The…

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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…

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This paper presents a safe output regulation control strategy for a class of systems modeled by a coupled $2\times 2$ hyperbolic PDE-ODE structure, subject to fully distributed disturbances throughout the system. A state-feedback controller…

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Directional solidification occurs in industrial and natural processes, such as freeze-casting, metal processing, biological cryopreservation and freezing of soils. Translational temperature gradient stage allows to control the process of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Michael Chasnitsky , Victor Yashunsky , Ido Braslavsky

In this paper a 3-phase Stefan problem solution method for 1D semi-infinity alloy is developed. The problem is first solved for full enthalpy of the system and then the thermal diffusivity has been eliminated from the divergence operator by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Evgeniy N. Kondrashov

We consider a semi-infinite one-dimensional phase-change material with two unknown constant thermal coefficients among the latent heat per unit mass, the specific heat, the mass density and the thermal conductivity. Aiming at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Andrea N. Ceretani , Domingo A. Tarzia

We solve the output-feedback stabilization problem for a tank with a liquid modeled by the viscous Saint-Venant PDE system. The control input is the acceleration of the tank and a Control Lyapunov Functional methodology is used. The…

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We solve the global asymptotic stability problem of an unstable reaction-diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) subject to input delay and state quantization developing a switched predictor-feedback law. To deal with the input delay,…

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