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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Ioana Ciotir , Franco Flandoli , Dan Goreac

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, \\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Weiwei Ding , Yihong Du , Zongming Guo

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Luis Acuna Valverde

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 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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Mahir Hadzic , Pierre Raphael

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Graeme Baker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Norbert Požár , Giang Thi Thu Vu

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 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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Hyeonbae Kang , Shigeru Sakaguchi

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 Roman Cherniha , Sergii Kovalenko

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Philippe Vignal , Lisandro Dalcin , Donald L. Brown , Nathan Collier , Victor M. Calo

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Mahir Hadzic

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Fausto Ferrari , Nicolò Forcillo , Davide Giovagnoli , David Jesus

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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Jeongheon Park

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Christa Cuchiero , Christoph Reisinger , Stefan Rigger

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.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Daniela De Silva , Nicolo Forcillo , Ovidiu Savin

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Soumen Senapati , Manmohan Vashisth

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Vadim Kaushansky , Christoph Reisinger , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov , Zhuo Qun Song