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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…

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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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Chun Liu , Jan-Eric Sulzbach , Yiwei Wang

We study a one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem with a Neumann boundary condition on the fixed part of the boundary. We construct the unique self-similar solution, and show that starting from arbitrary initial data, solution orbits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Danielle Hilhorst , Sabrina Roscani , Piotr Rybka

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

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

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

We study the nonlocal Stefan problem, where the phase transition is described by a nonlocal diffusion as well as the change of enthalpy functions. By using a stochastic optimization approach introduced for the local case, we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Kyeongsik Nam

In this paper, a backstepping observer and an output feedback control law are designed for the stabilization of the one-phase Stefan problem. The present result is an improvement of the recent full state feedback backstepping controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , 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

We assume that the Stefan problem with undercooling has a classical solution until the moment of contact of free boundaries and the free boundaries have finite velocities until the contact. Under these assumptions, we construct a smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Danilov

A mathematical model for a one-phase change problem (particularly a Stefan problem) with a memory flux, is obtained. The hypothesis that the weighted sum of fluxes back in time is proportional to the gradient of temperature is considered.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Sabrina Roscani , Julieta Bollati , Domingo Tarzia

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

We assume that the Stefan problem with undercooling has a classical solution until the moment of contact of free boundaries and the free boundaries have continuous velocities until the moment of contact. Under these assumptions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. G. Danilov , V. Yu. Rudnev

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

The mathematical model describing the dynamics of closed contact heating which involves vaporization of the metal when instantaneous explosion of micro-asperity occurs is presented through a Stefan type problem. The temperature field for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Julieta Bollati , Adriana C. Briozzo , Stanislav N. Kharin , Targyn A. Nauryz

We study the vanishing viscosity limit of a nonlinear diffusion equation describing chemical reaction interface or the spatial segregation interface of competing species, where the diffusion rate for the negative part of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Kelei Wang

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundaries. Optimal control framework is pursued, where boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi

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

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