The research of a Stefan problem with unknown pressure in a liquid phase (Q2208735)

The authors consider a one-dimensional mathematical model describing the melting process of crude oil based on heavy paraffins. The melted oil is located in the porous medium, the pressure in this phase is unknown. The temperature of melting depends on the pressure. The model leads to a free boundary problem for three parabolic equations, where the unknowns are the temperature in the solid and liquid phases and the pressure in the liquid phase. This is a Stefan type problem with the melting point that depends on pressure. The unique solvability of the problem in Hölder function spaces is proved for the small values of time. The result is obtained by fixed point theorem on the base of the investigation of the correspoding linear problem and estimates of nonlinear terms.