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This work establishes a scaling limit theorem for the Stefan problem incorporating a mushy region, demonstrating that solutions to stochastic variants with turbulent transport terms converge to the solution to a deterministic partial…
We consider the nonlinear Stefan problem $$ \left \{ \begin{array} {ll} -d \Delta u=a u-b u^2 \;\; & \mbox{for } x \in \Omega (t), \; t>0, \\ u=0 \mbox{ and } u_t=\mu|\nabla_x u |^2 \;\;&\mbox{for } x \in \partial\Omega (t), \; t>0, \\…
This paper studies the small time behavior of the heat content of rotationally invariant $\alpha$--stable processes, $0<\alpha \leq 2$, in domains in $\R^d$. Unlike the asymptotics for the heat trace, the behavior of the heat content…
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…
We consider the two dimensional free boundary Stefan problem describing the evolution of a spherically symmetric ice ball $\{r\leq \lambda(t)\}$. We revisit the pioneering analysis of [20] and prove the existence in the radial class of…
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…
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…
We study the large-time behavior of solutions of a one-phase Stefan-type problem with anisotropic diffusion in periodic media on an exterior domain in a dimension $n \geq 3$. By a rescaling transformation that matches the expansion of the…
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…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the heat diffusion equation in the whole Euclidean space consisting of two media with different constant conductivities. The large time behavior of temperature, the solution of the problem, is studied when…
The (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear boundary value problem, modeling the process of melting and evaporation of metals, is studied by means of the classical Lie symmetry method. All possible Lie operators of the nonlinear heat equation, which…
The phase-field crystal equation, a parabolic, sixth-order and nonlinear partial differential equation, has generated considerable interest as a possible solution to problems arising in molecular dynamics. This is because the phase-field…
We consider the Stefan problem with surface tension, also known as the Stefan-Gibbs-Thomson problem, in an ambient space of arbitrary dimension. Assuming the radial symmetry of the initial data we introduce a novel "probabilistic" notion of…
We prove nonlinear asymptotic stability of steady spheres in the two-phase Stefan problem with surface tension. Our method relies on the introduction of appropriate orthogonality conditions in conjunction with a high-order energy method.
In this paper, we prove that flat free boundaries of solutions to inhomogeneous one-phase Stefan problem are $C^{1,\alpha}$. The method consists of employing a hodograph transform and deriving the regularity via a linearization technique,…
We consider the interior Stefan problem under radial symmetry in two dimension. A water ball surrounded by ice undergoes melting or freezing. We construct a discrete family of global-in-time solutions, both melting and freezing scenarios.…
We consider two implicit approximation schemes of the one-dimensional supercooled Stefan problem and prove their convergence, even in the presence of finite time blow-ups. All proofs are based on a probabilistic reformulation recently…
We provide perturbative estimates for the one-phase Stefan free boundary problem and obtain the regularity of flat free boundaries via a linearization technique in the spirit of the elliptic counterpart established by the first author.
In this article, we study the stability in the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent convection term and density coefficient appearing in the convection-diffusion equation, from partial boundary measurements. For dimension…
The supercooled Stefan problem and its variants describe the freezing of a supercooled liquid in physics, as well as the large system limits of systemic risk models in finance and of integrate-and-fire models in neuroscience. Adopting the…