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A semi-infinite material under a solidification process with the Solomon-Wilson- Alexiades's mushy zone model with a heat flux condition at the fixed boundary is considered. The associated free boundary problem is overspecified through a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Andrea N. Ceretani , Domingo A. Tarzia

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 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

We obtain a generalized Neumann solution for the two-phase fractional Lam\'{e}-Clapeyron-Stefan problem for a semi-infinite material with constant boundary and initial conditions. In this problem, the two governing equations and a governing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Sabrina D. Roscani , Domingo A. Tarzia

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

We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Ugur G. Abdulla

In this paper we present a numerical solution of a two-phase fractional Stefan problem with time derivative described in the Caputo sense. In the proposed algorithm, we use a special case of front-fixing method supplemented by the iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Marek Błasik

This paper delves into the Inverse Stefan problem, specifically focusing on determining the time-dependent source coefficient in the parabolic heat equation governing heat transfer in a semi-infinite rod. The problem entails the intricate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Targyn A. Nauryz , Khumoyun Jabbarkhanov

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

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

We prove existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the two-phase Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law where the free interface forms a ninety degree contact angle with the fixed boundary. We also discuss existence of global solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Maximilian Rauchecker

We study the Stefan problem with surface tension and radially symmetric initial data. In this context, the notion of a so-called physical solution, which exists globally despite the inherent blow-ups of the melting rate, has been recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Yucheng Guo , Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Che-Chia Chang , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai

The simultaneous determination of two unknown thermal coefficients for a semi-infinite material under a phase-change process with a mushy zone according to the Solomon-Wilson-Alexiades model is considered. The material is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-03 Andrea N. Ceretani , Domingo A. Tarzia

We study the existence and uniqueness of a solution to a linear stationary convection-diffusion equation stated in an infinite cylinder, Neumann boundary condition being imposed on the boundary. We assume that the cylinder is a junction of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Irina Pettersson , Andrey Piatnitski

In this paper we formulate a Stefan problem appropriate when the thermophysical properties are distinct in each phase and the phase-change temperature is size or velocity dependent. Thermophysical properties invariably take different values…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Timothy G. Myers , Matthew G. Hennessy , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwälder

Taking into account the recent works \cite{RoTaVe:2020} and \cite{Rys:2020}, we consider a phase-change problem for a one dimensional material with a non-local flux, expressed in terms of the Caputo derivative, which derives in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Sabrina Roscani , Katarzyna Ryszewska , Lucas Venturato

In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a free-boundary problem modeling the phase transition of a material where the heat is transported by both conduction and radiation. Specifically, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

Convection-diffusion of heat transfer is one of the important phenomena in fluid flow and industrial problems. The involved parameters, boundary conditions, and material properties are greatly affecting the same. As such, the uncertainness…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Sudipta Priyadarshini , Sukanta Nayak , Paresh Kumar Panigrahi

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded Lipschitz domain, where the density of the heat source is unknown in addition to the temperature and the phase transition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi