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We develop a new variational formulation of the inverse Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundary. We employ optimal control framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Ugur G. Abdulla

We utilize the externally forced linearized Navier-Stokes equations to study the receptivity of pre-transitional boundary layers to persistent sources of stochastic excitation. Stochastic forcing is used to model the effect of free-stream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-09 Wei Ran , Armin Zare , M. J. Philipp Hack , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We study the supercooled Stefan problem in arbitrary dimensions. First, we study general solutions and their irregularities, showing generic fractal freezing and nucleation, based on a novel Markovian gluing principle. In contrast, we then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Sebastian Munoz

We introduce a new notion of viscosity solutions for a class of very singular nonlinear parabolic problems of non-divergence form in a periodic domain of arbitrary dimension, whose diffusion on flat parts with zero slope is so strong that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Mi-Ho Giga , Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Pozar

We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

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 consider boundary value problems for quasilinear first-order one-dimensional hyperbolic systems in a strip. The boundary conditions are supposed to be of a smoothing type, in the sense that the $L^2$-generalized solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 I. Kmit , L. Recke , V. Tkachenko

We study the vanishing viscosity limit of a nonlinear diffusion equation describing chemical reaction interface or the spatial segregation interface of competing species, where the diffusion rate for the negative part of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Kelei Wang

The non-local in space two-phase Stefan problem (a prototype in phase change problems) can be formulated via a singular nonlinear parabolic integro-differential equation which admits a unique weak solution. This formulation makes Stefan…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Ioannis Athanasopoulos , Luis Caffarelli , Emmanouil Milakis

In this article, we establish the existence of a family of hypersurfaces $(\Gamma (t))_{0< t \leq T}$ which evolve by the vanishing mean curvature flow in Minkowski space and which as $t$ tends to~$0$ blow up towards a hypersurface which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hajer Bahouri , Alaa Marachli , Galina Perelman

A new solution to the mono-dimensional diffusion equation for time-variable first kind boundary condition is presented where the time-variable function at the surface is derived proposing a surface saturation model. This solution may be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-08 Guglielmo Macrelli

We show that self-similar solutions for the mean curvature flow, surface diffusion and Willmore flow of entire graphs are stable upon perturbations of initial data with small Lipschitz norm. Roughly speaking, the perturbed solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Hengrong Du , Nung Kwan Yip

The free elastic flow is the $L^2$-gradient flow for Euler's elastic energy, or equivalently the Willmore flow with translation invariant initial data. In contrast to elastic flows under length penalisation or preservation, it is more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Tatsuya Miura , Glen Wheeler

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow with insoluble surfactant. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations for the two-phase flow in the bulk, which are coupled to the transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

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

Physical notions of stochastic resonance for potential diffusions in periodically changing double-well potentials such as the spectral power amplification have proved to be defective. They are not robust for the passage to their effective…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Herrmann , Peter Imkeller

This work discusses the correct modeling of the fully nonlinear free surface boundary conditions to be prescribed in water waves flow simulations based on potential flow theory. The main goal of such a discussion is that of identifying a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Andrea Mola , Nicola Giuliani , Óscar Crego , Gianluigi Rozza

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We propose a two-dimensional flow model of a viscous fluid between two close moving surfaces. We show, using a formal asymptotic expansion of the solution, that its asymptotic behavior, when the distance between the two surfaces tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 José M. Rodríguez , Raquel Taboada-Vázquez