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Melting is omnipresent in nature and technology, with applications ranging from metallurgy, biology, food science, and latent thermal energy storage to oceanography, geophysics, and climate science, and occurring on all scales from…

We consider the three-dimensional radial Stefan problem which describes the evolution of a radial symmetric ice ball with free boundary \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &\partial_{t}u-\partial_{rr}u-\frac{2}{r}\partial_{r}u=0 \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Chencheng Zhang

This paper presents results for the sampled-data boundary feedback control to the Stefan problem. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's temperature profile…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Shumon Koga , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

Modeling phase change problems numerically is vital for understanding many natural (e.g., ice formation, steam generation) and engineering processes (e.g., casting, welding, additive manufacturing). Almost all phase change materials (PCMs)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 Ramakrishnan Thirumalaisamy , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

The role of thermal relaxation in nanoparticle melting is studied using a mathematical model based on the Maxwell--Cattaneo equation for heat conduction. The model is formulated in terms of a two-phase Stefan problem. We consider the cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Matthew G. Hennessy , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwälder , Timothy G. Myers

A heat exchange interface at subzero temperature in a water vapor environment, exhibits high probability of frost formation due to freezing condensation, a factor that markedly decreases the heat transfer efficacy due to the considerable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-23 Christos Stamatopoulos , Jaroslav Hemrle , Danhong Wang , Dimos Poulikakos

Melting is analyzed dynamically as a problem of localization at a liquid-solid interface. A Lindemann-like criterion of melting is derived in terms of particular vibrational amplitudes, which turn out to equal a universal quotient (about…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassiliy Lubchenko

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

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of time-dependent fluid-solid interaction problem associated with a bounded elastic body immersed in a homogeneous air or fluid above a local rough surface. We reformulate the unbounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Changkun Wei , Jiaqing Yang

Freezing of simple liquid metals and the relative stabilities of competing crystalline solids are investigated using thermodynamic perturbation theory, the interactions between ions being modeled by effective pair potentials derived from…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Denton , G. Kahl , J. Hafner

This contribution presents a backstepping-based state feedback design for the tracking control of a two-phase Stefan problem which is encountered in the Vertical Gradient Freeze crystal growth process. A two-phase Stefan problem consists of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Stefan Ecklebe , Frank Woittennek , Jan Winkler

The probe intended for the characterization of cold plasma is introduced. The probe allows estimation of the Debye length of the cold plasma. The probe is based on the pronounced modification of surface properties (wettability) of polymer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Edward Bormashenko , Gilad Chaniel , Victor Multanen

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

Self-propelled particles can undergo complex dynamics due to a range of bulk and surface interactions. When a particle is embedded in a host solid near its bulk melting temperature, the latter may melt at the surface of the former in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-16 Jeremy Vachier , John S. Wettlaufer

Electrofreezing is a powerful technique that employs the electric field to control and enhance the freezing process. In this work, a phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is developed to study the electrofreezing process of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jiangxu Huang , Hanqing Li , Jiaqi Che , Zhenhua Chai , Lei Wang , Baochang Shi

This work is devoted to the proof of the existence of a martingale solution for a complex version of the stochastic Stefan problem. This particular formulation incorporates two important features: a mushy region and turbulent transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ioana Ciotir , Franco Flandoli , Dan Goreac

A long controversy of ice lensing exists in the research of frost heave. By elucidating the mechanical and thermodynamics equilibria at the interface, we present the thermodynamics of the water/ice interface from macroscale to microscale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-06 Lilin Wang , Zhijun Wang

In this article we study a mathematical model of the heat transfer in semi infinite material with a variable cross section, when the radial component of the temperature gradient can be neglected in comparison with the axial component is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Targyn A. Nauryz , Adriana C. Briozzo

An ongoing problem in the study of a classical many-body system is the characterization of its equilibrium behaviour by theory or numerical simulation. For purely repulsive particles, locating the melting line in the pressure-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-02 Santi Prestipino

Ice melting into saline water plays a fundamental role in the dynamics near the ice-ocean interface in polar oceans. The physics of ice melting involves a non-trivial interplay between thermodynamics at the interface, hydrodynamic transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sofía Allende , Louis-Alexandre Couston , Simon Thalabard , Benjamin Favier