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Multiphase mechanical models are now commonly used to describe living tissues including tumour growth. The specific model we study here consists of two equations of mixed parabolic and hyperbolic type which extend the standard compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Federica Bubba , Benoît Perthame , Camille Pouchol , Markus Schmidtchen

The porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation and the Hele-Shaw problem are two free boundary problems linked through the incompressible (Hele-Shaw) limit. We investigate and compare the sharp power concavities of the pressures on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Qingyou He

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

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

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…

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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…

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In this paper we study a cross-diffusion system whose coefficient matrix is non-symmetric and degenerate. The system arises in the study of tissue growth with autophagy. The existence of a weak solution is established. We also investigate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Jian-Guo Liu , Xiangsheng Xu

We study a one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem with a Neumann boundary condition on the fixed part of the boundary. We construct the unique self-similar solution, and show that starting from arbitrary initial data, solution orbits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Danielle Hilhorst , Sabrina Roscani , Piotr Rybka

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we revisit a shape optimization reformulation of a prototypical shape inverse problem and briefly propose a simple yet efficient numerical approach for solving the corresponding minimization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago , Masato Kimura

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

We develop a numerical method to estimate the average speed of the free boundary in a Hele-Shaw problem with periodic coefficients in both space and time. We test the accuracy of the method and present a few examples. We show numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Irma Palupi , Norbert Pozar

In this paper, the interaction between two immiscible fluids with a finite mobility ratio is investigated numerically within a Hele-Shaw cell. Fingering instabilities initiated at the interface between a low viscosity fluid and a high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-01 S. J. Jackson , D. Stevens , H. Power , D. Giddings

New numerical solutions to the so-called selection problem for one and two steadily translating bubbles in an unbounded Hele-Shaw cell are presented. Our approach relies on conformal mapping which, for the two-bubble problem, involves the…

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We establish that the $C^{1,\gamma}$ regularity theory for translation invariant fractional order parabolic integro-differential equations (via Krylov-Safonov estimates) gives an improvement of regularity mechanism for solutions to a…

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We consider a probabilistic formulation of a singular two-phase Stefan problem in one space dimension, which amounts to a coupled system of two McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. In the financial context of systemic risk, this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Graeme Baker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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

The aim of this note is to review some recent developments on the regularity theory for the stationary and parabolic obstacle problems. After a general overview, we present some recent results on the structure of singular free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Alessio Figalli

A mathematical model describing motion of an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell is considered. Linear stability analysis of shear flow class is provided. The role of inertia, linear friction and impermeable boundaries in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Alexander Chesnokov , Irina Stepanova

We perform a linear stability analysis of three-layer radial porous media and Hele-Shaw flows with variable viscosity in the middle layer. A nonlinear change of variables results in an eigenvalue problem that has time-dependent coefficients…

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