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We consider the dunking problem: a solid body at uniform temperature $T_\text{i}$ is placed in a environment characterized by farfield temperature $T_\infty$ and time-independent spatially uniform heat transfer coefficient; we permit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Kento Kaneko , Claude Le Bris , Anthony T. Patera

In the study of the heat transfer in the Boltzmann theory, the basic problem is to construct solutions to the steady problem for the Boltzmann equation in a general bounded domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions corresponding to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Raffaele Esposito , Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Rossana Marra

We establish certain oscillation estimates for weak solutions to nonlinear, anomalous phase transitions modeled on the nonlocal two-phase Stefan problem. The problem is singular in time, is scaling deficient and influenced by far-off…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Kyeongbae Kim , Ho-Sik Lee , Harsh Prasad

We prove the global-time existence of weak solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem. Our result holds in general space dimensions and with a general class of initial data. In addition, our solution is maximal in the sense of a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Sunhi Choi , Inwon C. Kim , Young-Heon Kim

In this paper we consider the one-phase Stefan problem with surface tension, set in a two-dimensional strip-like geometry, with periodic boundary conditions respect to the horizontal direction $x_1\in\mathbb{T}$. We prove that the system is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Borjan Geshkovski , Debayan Maity

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 solutions of the one-phase supercooled Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling, which describes the freezing of a supercooled liquid, in one spatial dimension. Assuming that the initial temperature lies between the equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Graeme Baker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

For a heat equation with Robin's boundary conditions which depends on a parameter $\alpha>0$, we prove that its unique weak solution $\rho^\alpha$ converges, when $\alpha$ goes to zero or to infinity, to the unique weak solution of the heat…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Tertuliano Franco , Patricia Gonçalves , Adriana Neumann

We establish two integral variational principles for the spreading speed of the one dimensional reaction diffusion equation with Stefan boundary conditions. The first principle is valid for monostable reaction terms and the second principle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 R. D. Benguria , M. C. Depassier

We study for the first time a two-phase free boundary problem in which the solution satisfies a Robin boundary condition. We consider the case in which the solution is continuous across the free boundary and we prove an existence and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Serena Guarino Lo Bianco , Domenico Angelo La Manna , Bozhidar Velichkov

We obtained a new representation of a solution of the heat conduction equation with boundary condition of the third kind for a layer. The result is presented as a superposition of fundamental solutions for an unbounded system with variable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Usenko

The classical Stefan problem is reduced as the singular limit of phase-field equations. These equations are for temperature $u$ and the phase-field $\varphi$, consists of a heat equation: $$ u_t+\ell\varphi_t=\Delta u, $$ and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Jun-ichi Koga , Jiro Koga , Shunji Homma

The classical half line Robin problem for the heat equation may be solved via a spatial Fourier transform method. In this work, we study the problem in which the static Robin condition $bq(0,t)+q_x(0,t)=0$ is replaced with a dynamic Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-06 David A. Smith , Wei Yang Toh

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 present a numerical method for the solution of interfacial growth governed by the Stefan model coupled with incompressible fluid flow. An algorithm is presented which takes special care to enforce sharp interfacial conditions on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Elyce Bayat , Raphael Egan , Daniil Bochkov , Alban Sauret , Frederic Gibou

We study the one-phase one-dimensional supercooled Stefan problem with oscillatory initial conditions. In this context, the global existence of so-called physical solutions has been shown recently in [CRSF20], despite the presence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Scander Mustapha , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We consider the dunking problem: a solid body at uniform temperature $T_{\text i}$ is placed in a environment characterized by farfield temperature $T_\infty$ and spatially uniform time-independent heat transfer coefficient. We permit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Kento Kaneko , Claude Le Bris , Anthony T. Patera

We develop a high-order energy method to prove asymptotic stability of flat steady surfaces for the Stefan problem with surface tension - also known as the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson correction.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-08 Mahir Hadzic , Yan Guo

In this paper, we propose a novel numerical scheme for solving time-fractional reaction-diffusion problems with Robin boundary conditions, where the time derivative is in the Caputo sense of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. The existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Qian Luo , Aiguo Xiao , Xiaoqiang Yan , Jingmin Xia

Supercooled Stefan problems describe the evolution of the boundary between the solid and liquid phases of a substance, where the liquid is assumed to be cooled below its freezing point. Following the methodology of Delarue, Nadtochiy and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Christa Cuchiero , Stefan Rigger , Sara Svaluto-Ferro