Solutions for the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law by a local minimisation (Q1430455)

From MaRDI portal
Revision as of 22:02, 9 February 2024 by RedirectionBot (talk | contribs) (‎Removed claim: reviewed by (P1447): Item:Q162210)
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Solutions for the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law by a local minimisation
scientific article

    Statements

    Solutions for the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law by a local minimisation (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    27 May 2004
    0 references
    The main concern of the paper is to provide a suitable formulation of the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson law in which the singularities of the interface generated by the merging of phases of the same kind can be treated in an appropriate way. The novelty consists in replacing the mean curvature \(H\) of the phase interface by the generalized mean curvature vector \(\vec{H}\), reformulating the Gibbs-Thomson law not simply as \(H=u\) (where \(u\) is the rescaled temperature) but as \(\vec{H}=u \vec{\nu}\), with \(\vec{\nu}=\nabla \chi / | \nabla \chi| \) (where \(\chi\) is the phase parameter), to be read in a suitable sense. Time discretisation and local minimisation are used to construct the solution. Of course the paper is very technical. As an example the impingement of two growing ice balls is illustrated, showing that bridge-like structures can be created.
    0 references
    Stefan problem
    0 references
    interface
    0 references
    mean curvature
    0 references
    generalized mean curvature
    0 references
    local minimisation
    0 references

    Identifiers