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In this article we consider a mathematical model of an initial stage of closure electrical contact that involves a metallic vaporization after instantaneous exploding of contact due to arc ignition with power $P_0$ on fixed face $z=0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 T. A. Nauryz

The matching problem plays a basic role in combinatorial optimization and in statistical mechanics. In its stochastic variants, optimization decisions have to be taken given only some probabilistic information about the instance. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-03 Fabrizio Altarelli , Alfredo Braunstein , Abolfazl Ramezanpour , Riccardo Zecchina

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 prove the global-time existence of weak solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem. Our result holds in general space dimensions and with a general class of initial data. In addition, our solution is maximal in the sense of a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Sunhi Choi , Inwon C. Kim , Young-Heon Kim

Quantitative properties of stochastic systems are usually specified in logics that allow one to compare the measure of executions satisfying certain temporal properties with thresholds. The model checking problem for stochastic systems with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Axel Legay , Benoit Delahaye

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

Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) is studied from the point of view of mathematical optimization. We present two formulations of the problem of finding the critical path delay distribution that were not known before: (i) a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Adam Bosak , Dmytro Mishagli , Jakub Marecek

Markov chains are fundamental models for stochastic dynamics, with applications in a wide range of areas such as population dynamics, queueing systems, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo methods. Estimating the transition matrix and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Lasse Leskelä , Maximilien Dreveton

The two-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain, composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gustavo Navarro , Steve Shkoller

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

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

Stochastic systems characterised by a random driving in a form of the general stable noise are considered. The particle experiences long rests due to the traps the density of which is position-dependent and obeys a power-law form attributed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 Tomasz Srokowski

Stochastic diffusion equations are crucial for modeling a range of physical phenomena influenced by uncertainties. We introduce the generalized finite difference method for solving these equations. Then, we examine its consistency,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad

We present a numerical method for the solution of interfacial growth governed by the Stefan model coupled with incompressible fluid flow. An algorithm is presented which takes special care to enforce sharp interfacial conditions on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Elyce Bayat , Raphael Egan , Daniil Bochkov , Alban Sauret , Frederic Gibou

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

Stochastic processes are proposed whose master equations coincide with classical wave, telegraph, and Klein-Gordon equations. Similar to predecessors based on the Goldstein-Kac telegraph process, the model describes the motion of particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Plyukhin

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

The classical one-phase Stefan problem (without surface tension) allows for a continuum of steady state solutions, given by an arbitrary (but sufficiently smooth) domain together with zero temperature. We prove global-in-time stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Mahir Hadžić , Steve Shkoller

A new method is described for constructing a generalized solution for stochastic differential equations. The method is based on the Cameron-Martin version of the Wiener Chaos expansion and provides a unified framework for the study of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. V. Lototsky , B. L. Rozovskii

We obtain the first probabilistic proof of continuous differentiability of time-dependent optimal boundaries in optimal stopping problems. The underlying stochastic dynamics is a one-dimensional, time-inhomogeneous diffusion. The gain…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Tiziano De Angelis , Damien Lamberton