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We study the nonlocal Stefan problem, where the phase transition is described by a nonlocal diffusion as well as the change of enthalpy functions. By using a stochastic optimization approach introduced for the local case, we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Kyeongsik Nam

This paper delves into the Inverse Stefan problem, specifically focusing on determining the time-dependent source coefficient in the parabolic heat equation governing heat transfer in a semi-infinite rod. The problem entails the intricate…

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Many metal manufacturing processes involve phase change phenomena, which include melting, boiling, and vaporization. These phenomena often occur concurrently. A prototypical 1D model for understanding the phase change phenomena is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Yavkreet Swami , Jacob Barajas , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

Solving the Stefan problem, also referred as the heat conduction problem with phase change, is a necessary step to solve phase change problems with convection. In this article, we are interested in using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Francky Luddens , Corentin Lothodé , Ionut Danaila

We study the existence and properties of solutions and free boundaries of the one-phase Stefan problem with fractional diffusion posed in $\mathbb{R}^N$. In terms of the enthalpy $h(x,t)$, the evolution equation reads $\partial_t…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Juan Luis Vázquez

We assume that the Stefan problem with undercooling has a classical solution until the moment of contact of free boundaries and the free boundaries have finite velocities until the contact. Under these assumptions, we construct a smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Danilov

The classical Stefan problem is one of the most studied free boundary problems of evolution type. Recently, there has been interest in treating the corresponding free boundary problem with nonlocal diffusion. We start the paper by reviewing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Juan Luis Vázquez

A generalized Neumann solution for the two-phase fractional Lam\'e--Clapeyron--Stefan problem for a semi--infinite material with constant initial temperature and a particular heat flux condition at the fixed face is obtained, when a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Sabrina Roscani , Domingo Tarzia

We consider the problem of heat conduction with phase change, that is essential for permafrost modeling in Land Surface Models and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. These models require minimal computational effort and an extremely robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-04 David Hötten , Jenny Niebsch , Ronny Ramlau , Walter Zulehner

We construct examples for the one-phase Stefan problem which show that $\alpha$-concavity of the solution is in general not preserved in time, for $0 \le \alpha <1/2$. In particular, this shows that, in contrast to the case of the heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Albert Chau , Ben Weinkove

We consider the problem of recovering the initial condition in the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem for the heat equation from the knowledge of the position of the melting point. We first recall some properties of the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Chifaa Ghanmi , Saloua Mani Aouadi , Faouzi Triki

In this paper a 3-phase Stefan problem solution method for 1D semi-infinity alloy is developed. The problem is first solved for full enthalpy of the system and then the thermal diffusivity has been eliminated from the divergence operator by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Evgeniy N. Kondrashov

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

The detailed mathematical model of heat and mass transfer of steel ingot of curvilinear continuous casting machine is proposed. The process of heat and mass transfer is described by nonlinear partial differential equations of parabolic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-25 Anna Ivanova

The Stefan problem is a classical free-boundary problem that models phase-change processes and poses computational challenges due to its moving interface and nonlinear temperature-phase coupling. In this work, we develop a physics-informed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Che-Chia Chang , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai

We obtain for the two-phase Lam\'e-Clapeyron-Stefan problem for a semi-infinite material an equivalence between the temperature and convective boundary conditions at the fixed face in the case that an inequality for the convective transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Domingo Alberto Tarzia

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

We introduce and analyze a nonlocal version of the one-phase Stefan problem in which, as in the classical model, the rate of growth of the volume of the liquid phase is proportional to the rate at which energy is lost through the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Carmen Cortázar , Fernando Quirós , Noemí Wolanski

We consider local solutions of the two-phase Stefan problem with a "mushy" region. We show that if a (distributional) solution u is locally square integrable then the temperature is continuous.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. K. Korten , C. N. Moore

We consider a one-dimensional one-phase inverse Stefan problem for the heat equation. It consists in recovering a boundary influx condition from the knowledge of the position of the moving front, and the initial state. We derived a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Chifaa Ghanmi , Saloua Mani-Aouadi , Faouzi Triki