Regularity of expanding front and its application to solidification/melting in undercooled liquid/superheated solid
Author(s) -
Xinfu Chen,
Huiqiang Jiang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
interfaces and free boundaries mathematical analysis computation and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.964
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1463-9971
pISSN - 1463-9963
DOI - 10.4171/ifb/304
Subject(s) - superheating , supercooling , materials science , front (military) , thermodynamics , boundary (topology) , mechanics , kinetic energy , lipschitz continuity , stefan problem , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , classical mechanics , meteorology
This article proves that fronts of expanding domains with Hölder continuous speeds are contained in finite unions of Lipschitz graphs. As an application, the global in time existence of a solution to a free boundary problem modelling solidification in undercooled liquid or liquidation in superheated solid is established; here the propagation speed of the liquid/solid interface is assumed to be a known positive smooth function of the temperature, known as a kinetic undercooling/superheating effect.
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