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Asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of the supercooled Stefan problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Fahuai Yi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, China

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that the Hele–Shaw problem with kinetic condition and surface tension is the limit case of the supercooled Stefan problem in the classical sense when specific heat ε goes to zero. The method is the use of a fixed-point theorem; the key is to construct a workable function space. The main feature is to obtain the existence and the uniform estimates with respect to ε > 0 at the same time for the solutions of the supercooled Stefan problem. For the sake of simplicity, we only consider the case of one phase, although the method used here is also applicable in the case of two phases.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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