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We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Alex Doak , Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a free-boundary problem modeling the phase transition of a material where the heat is transported by both conduction and radiation. Specifically, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We study the Stefan problem with surface tension and radially symmetric initial data. In this context, the notion of a so-called physical solution, which exists globally despite the inherent blow-ups of the melting rate, has been recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Yucheng Guo , Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We consider the Stefan problem with surface tension, also known as the Stefan-Gibbs-Thomson problem, in an ambient space of arbitrary dimension. Assuming the radial symmetry of the initial data we introduce a novel "probabilistic" notion of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

In this paper we consider a one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem corresponding to the solidification process of a semi-infinite material with a convective boundary condition at the fixed face. The exact solution of this problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Julieta Bollati , José A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia

We consider the Cauchy problem for the heat diffusion equation in the whole Euclidean space consisting of two media with different constant conductivities. The large time behavior of temperature, the solution of the problem, is studied when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Hyeonbae Kang , Shigeru Sakaguchi

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 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

In this paper, we consider the fractional heat equation $u_{t}=\triangle^{\alpha/2}u+f(u)$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the ball $B_{R}\subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, where $\triangle^{\alpha/2}$ is the fractional Laplacian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Kexue Li

We prove two stability results for the scale invariant solutions of the nonlinear heat equation $\partial_t u=\Delta u - |u|^{p-1}u$ with $1<p<1+{2\over n}$, $n$ being the spatial dimension. The first result is that a small perturbation of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Bricmont , A. Kupiainen

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

This work is devoted to the proof of the existence of a martingale solution for a complex version of the stochastic Stefan problem. This particular formulation incorporates two important features: a mushy region and turbulent transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ioana Ciotir , Franco Flandoli , Dan Goreac

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

We study the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem associated to a phase transition modeled upon the degenerate two-phase Stefan problem. We prove that weak solutions are continuous up to the parabolic boundary and quantify the continuity by deriving a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Paolo Baroni , Tuomo Kuusi , Casimir Lindfors , José Miguel Urbano

We study the regularity of the free boundary arising in a thermodynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem with surface tension by means of a family of parameter-dependent diffeomorphisms, $L_p$-maximal regularity theory, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Jan Pruess , Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett

Our study of the basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions consistent with thermodynamics [10,11,12,16] is extended to the case of temperature-dependent surface tension. We prove well-posedness in an Lp-setting,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Jan Pruess , Senjo Shimizu , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

The classical Stefan problem is reduced as the singular limit of phase-field equations. These equations are for temperature $u$ and the phase-field $\varphi$, consists of a heat equation: $$ u_t+\ell\varphi_t=\Delta u, $$ and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Jun-ichi Koga , Jiro Koga , Shunji Homma

The classical Stefan problem, concerning mere heat-transfer during solid-liquid phase transition, is here enhanced towards mechanical effects. The Eulerian description at large displacements is used with convective and Zaremba-Jaumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tomáš Roubíček

Similarity solutions for the two-phase Rubinstein binary-alloy solidification problem in a semi-infinite material are developed. These new explicit solutions are obtained by considering two cases: a heat flux or a convective boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Lucas D. Venturato , Mariela B. Cirelli , Domingo A. Tarzia

We consider the one-dimensional outer stochastic Stefan problem with reflection. The problem admits maximal solutions as long as the velocity of the moving boundary remains bounded, [3,9,10]. We apply Malliavin calculus to the transformed…