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We investigate the regularizing behavior of two-phase Stefan problem near initial data. The main step in the analysis is to establish that in any given scale, the scaled solution is very close to a Lipschitz profile in space-time. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Sunhi Choi , Inwon Kim

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

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, a lattice Boltzmann model is proposed to simulate solid-liquid phase change phenomena in multiphase systems. The model couples the thermal properties of the solidification front with the dynamics of the liquid droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-04 Jiangxu Huang , Lei Wang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

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

We critically compare the practicality and accuracy of numerical approximations of phase field models and sharp interface models of solidification. Particular emphasis is put on Stefan problems, and their quasi-static variants, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

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 2016-11-01 Ugur G. Abdulla

A range of optimization cases of two-dimensional Stefan problems, solved using a tracking-type cost-functional, is presented. A level set method is used to capture the interface between the liquid and solid phases and an immersed boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tomas Fullana , Vincent Le Chenadec , Taraneh Sayadi

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

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

We study a class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems with random boundaries as a microscopic model for Stefan's melting and freezing problem. We prove that under diffusive rescaling these particle systems exhibit a hydrodynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Landim , Glauco Valle

A brief review of the Stefan problem of solidification from a mixture, and its main numerical solution methods is given. Simulation of this problem in 2D or 3D is most practically done on a regular grid, where a sharp solid-liquid interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Robert D. Groot

This paper deals with the exact controllability to the trajectories of the one--phase Stefan problem in one spatial dimension. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification and melting processes. It is assumed that the physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Jon Asier Bárcena-Petisco , Enrique Fernández-Cara , Diego A. Souza

A thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with temperature-dependent surface tension and with or without kinetic undercooling is studied. It is shown that these problems generate local semiflows in well-defined state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

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

We study the free boundary in the supercooled Stefan problem, a classical model for the solidification of water below its freezing temperature. In contrast with the melting problem, physical experiments and heuristics indicate that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Max Engelstein , Inwon Kim , Sebastian Munoz

Most heat transfer models for bulk crystal growth rely on the classical Stefan formulation to evaluate interface motion during phase change. However, when the interface is non-smooth the use of the classical Stefan formulation may lead to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-16 Eyan P. Noronha , B. Erik Ydstie

The technique of periodic homogenization with two-scale convergence is applied to the analysis of a two-phase Stefan-type problem that arises in the study of a periodic array of melting ice bars. For this "reduced model" we prove results on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Isabell Graf , John M. Stockie

This paper considers a safe trajectory tracking of the Stefan problem with a second-order moving boundary dynamics. The model is given by a parabolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time-varying domain of moving boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

We formulate a well posed interface formulation for canonical one-dimensional evaporation two-phase model problems (the Stefan and Sucking problems) commonly used to validate production codes. We focus on the interface between the vapor and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Jan Nordström