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We study the free boundary in an unstable parabolic problem arising from a model in combustion. We consider the physical situation in which the heat advances and prove that the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha/2}$ hypersurface.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Mark Allen , Gilles Bokolo-Tamba

This paper is dedicated to a free boundary system arising in the study of a class of shape optimization problems. The problem involves three variables: two functions $u$ and $v$, and a domain $\Omega$; with $u$ and $v$ being both positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Francesco Paolo Maiale , Giorgio Tortone , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study single-interface solutions to a free boundary problem that couples bilinear bulk diffusion to the Stefan condition and a hysteretic flow rule for phase boundaries. We introduce a time-discrete approximation scheme and establish its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Michael Herrmann , Dirk Janßen

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem of the minimizer of the energy \[ J_{\gamma}(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{(B_1^{n+1})^+}{y^{1-2s}|\nabla u(x,y)|^2dxdy}+\int_{B_1^{n}\times \{y=0\}}{u^{\gamma}dx}, \] with constants $0<s,\gamma<1$. It is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Yijing Wu

In this article we study optimization problems ruled by $\alpha$-fractional diffusion operators with volume constraints. By means of penalization techniques we prove existence of solutions. We also show that every solution is locally of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Eduardo V. Teixeira , Rafayel Teymurazyan

We consider a one-dimensional free boundary problem governed by a nonlinear diffusion - convection equation with a Neumann condition at fixed face $x=0$, which is variable in time and a like Stefan convective condition on the free boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Adriana C. Briozzo

We derive various novel free boundary problems as limits of a coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion system modelling ligand-receptor dynamics on evolving domains. These limiting free boundary problems may be formulated as Stefan-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Amal Alphonse , Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

We prove $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity (in the parabolic sense) for the viscosity solution of a boundary obstacle problem with a fully nonlinear parabolic equation in the interior. Following the method which was first introduced for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Georgiana Chatzigeorgiou

In this article, we establish global regularity results ($ C^{0,\gamma}$, $ C^{0,1} $ and $ C^{1}$ estimates) for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear equation on $ C^{2} $-domain. This corresponds to the boundary counterpart of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Jiangwen Wang , Feida Jiang

For the obstacle problem involving a convex fully nonlinear elliptic operator, we show that the singular set in the free boundary stratifies. The top stratum is locally covered by a $C^{1,\alpha}$-manifold, and the lower strata are covered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

For each sufficiently large integer $k$, we construct a domain in the round $2$-sphere with $k$ boundary components which is the link of a cone in $\mathbb{R}^3$ admitting a homogeneous solution to the one-phase free boundary problem. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Coleman Hines , James Kolesar , Peter McGrath

We study the regularity of the interface for a new free boundary problem introduced by Caffarelli and Kriventsov. We show that for minimizers of the functional \[ F_1(A,u) = \int_A |\nabla u|^2 d\mathcal{L}^n + \int_{\partial A} u^2 +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Dennis Kriventsov

Different one-phase Stefan problems for a semi-infinite slab are considered, involving a moving phase change material as well as temperature dependent thermal coefficients. Existence of at least one similarity solution is proved imposing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Julieta Bollati , Adriana C. Briozzo

Recently it was obtained in [Tarzia, Thermal Sci. 21A (2017) 1-11] for the classical two-phase Lam\'e-Clapeyron-Stefan problem an equivalence between the temperature and convective boundary conditions at the fixed face under a certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julieta Bollati , Domingo A. Tarzia

We investigate a Hele-Shaw type free boundary problem in one spatial dimension, where heterogeneities appear both on the free boundary and within the interior of the positivity set. Our contributions are twofold. First, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Olga Turanova , Yuming Paul Zhang

In this paper, we consider a vector-valued one-phase Bernoulli-type free boundary problem on a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ with Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $RCD(K,N)$. We first prove the existence and the local Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Chung-Kwong Chan , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

Given a global 1-homogeneous minimizer $U_0$ to the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional, with $sing(F(U_0)) = \{0\}$, we provide a foliation of the half-space $\R^{n} \times [0,+\infty)$ with dilations of graphs of global minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Daniela De Silva , David Jerison , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper we describe invariant geometrical ~structures in the phase space of the Swift-Hohenberg equation in a neighborhood of its periodic stationary states. We show that in spite of the fact that these states are only marginally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 J. -P. Eckmann , C. E. Wayne , P. Wittwer

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 obtain boundary nondegeneracy and regularity estimates for solutions to non-divergence equations in $C^1$ domains, providing an explicit modulus of continuity. Our results extend the classical Hopf-Oleinik lemma and boundary Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Clara Torres-Latorre