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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

A one-dimensional fractional one-phase Stefan problem with a temperature boundary condition at the fixed face is considered. An integral relationship between the temperature and the free boundary is obtained which is equivalent to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Sabrina Roscani , Domingo Tarzia

The Stefan problem with surface tension is well known to exhibit discontinuities in the associated moving aggregate (i.e., in the domain occupied by the solid), whose structure has only been understood under translational or radial symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yucheng Guo , Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

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 study the one-dimensional stationary solutions of an integro-differential equation derived by Giacomin and Lebowitz from Kawasaki dynamics in Ising systems with Kac potentials, \cite{GiacominLebowitz}. We construct stationary solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anna De Masi , Errico Presutti , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

We formulate and solve a free target optimal Brownian stopping problem from a given distribution while the target distribution is free and is conditioned to satisfy a given density height constraint. The free target optimization problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Inwon C. Kim , Young-Heon Kim

A one phase Stefan problem in nonlinear conduction is considered. The problem is shown to admit a unique solution for small times. An exact solution is obtained which is a travelling front moving with constant speed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. de Lillo , M. C. Salvatori

We consider the three-dimensional radial Stefan problem which describes the evolution of a radial symmetric ice ball with free boundary \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &\partial_{t}u-\partial_{rr}u-\frac{2}{r}\partial_{r}u=0 \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Chencheng Zhang

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 prove locally in time the existence of a smooth solution for multidimensional two-phase Stefan problem for degenerate parabolic equations of the porous medium type. We establish also natural H\"{o}lder class for the boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-10 S. P. Degtyarev

We derive the finite-temperature equation of state of dark matter superfluids with 2-body and 3-body contact interactions. The latter case is relevant to a recently proposed model of dark matter superfluidity that unifies the collisionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Anushrut Sharma , Justin Khoury , Tom Lubensky

We argue that the celebrated Stefan condition on the moving interphase, accepted in mathematical physics up to now, can not be imposed if energy sources are spatially distributed in the volume. A method based on Tikhonov and Samarskii's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Kostenko , J. Pribis , I. V. Puzynin

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

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

We prove strong convergence to singular limits for a linearized fully inhomogeneous Stefan problem subject to surface tension and kinetic undercooling effects. Different combinations of $\sigma \to \sigma_0$ and $\delta \to\delta_0$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Juergen Saal , Gieri Simonett

The one-dimensional (1D) Stefan problem is a prototypical heat and mass transfer problem that analyzes the temperature distribution in a material undergoing phase change. In addition, it describes the evolution of the phase change front…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mehran Soleimani , Kimmo Koponen , Nils Tilton , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

The classical system of shallow-water (Saint--Venant) equations describes long surface waves in an inviscid incompressible fluid of a variable depth. Although shock waves are expected in this quasilinear hyperbolic system for a wide class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Sergey N. Alexeenko , Marina V. Dontsova , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

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

This study investigates the melting process of a three-phase Stefan problem in a semi-infinite material, imposing a convective boundary condition at the fixed face. By employing a similarity-type transformation, the problem is reduced to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Julieta Bollati , María Fernanda Natale , José Abel Semitiel , Domingo Alberto Tarzia

We study a nonlocal version of the two-phase Stefan problem, which models a phase transition problem between two distinct phases evolving to distinct heat equations. Mathematically speaking, this consists in deriving a theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Emmanuel Chasseigne , Silvia Sastre-Gomez