A singular-perturbed two-phase Stefan problem (Q5938905)

This paper is devoted to the one-dimensional, two-phase Stefan problem defined by the following initial-boundary value problem on \([0,1]\) in scaled form: \[ \begin{cases} {\partial u^\varepsilon\over\partial t}= \varepsilon{\partial^2 u^\varepsilon\over\partial x^2},\quad u^\varepsilon(x, 0)= u_0(x),\quad 0< x< s^\varepsilon(t),\\ {\partial v^\varepsilon\over\partial t}= {\partial^2 v^\varepsilon\over\partial x^2},\quad v^\varepsilon(x, 0)= v_0(x),\quad s^\varepsilon(t)< x< 1,\\ u^\varepsilon(0,t)= \alpha,\quad v^\varepsilon(1, t)= \beta,\quad u^\varepsilon(s^\varepsilon(t), t)= v^\varepsilon(s^\varepsilon(t), t)= 0,\\ {\partial v^\varepsilon\over\partial x} (s^\varepsilon(t), t)- \varepsilon{\partial u^\varepsilon\over\partial x} (s^\varepsilon(t), t)= \lambda\dot s^\varepsilon(t).\end{cases}\tag{1} \] Here, the asymptotic behaviour of (1) is studied. The authors show, that in the limit the model equation (1) reduces to a one-phase Stefan problem. Moreover, they present numerical experiments using a front-tracking method, which in turn confirm theoretical results.