Lectures on evolution free boundary problems: classical solutions

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The paper is a survey of the author's results since 1993 and consists of two lectures. The one phase Stefan problem is investigated in details in the first lecture. Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n,\;n\geq2,\) be a bounded domain with the boundary \(S=\partial\Omega\) divided into two subdomains \(\Omega_1\) and \(\Omega_2\), by a closed surface \(\Gamma\) which is located away from \(S\), and let \(\partial\Omega_2=\Gamma,\;\partial\Omega_1=S\cup \Gamma\). The free surface \(\Gamma_t\) is changing with time \(t\). The problem is to find the family of surfaces \(\Gamma_t\) such that \(\Gamma_0=\Gamma\) and the function \(u(x,t)\) given in the domain \(\Omega_1(t)\) with the boundary \(\partial\Omega_1(t)=S\cup \Gamma_t\) and satisfying the equations \[ \begin{aligned} &\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-a\Delta u=0, \quad x\in\Omega_1(t),\\ &u| _{t=0}=u_0(x), \;x\in\Omega_1(0)=\Omega_1, \tag{1}\\ &u| _{x\in S}=b(x,t), \quad u| _{x\in \Gamma_t}=0,\quad \left.-c_0\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}\right| _{x\in \Gamma_t}=V_n, \end{aligned} \] where \(c_0,\;a\) are positive constants and \(V_n\) is the velocity of the evolution of \(\Gamma_t\) in the direction of interior normal \(n\). It is proved that the problem (1) has a unique solution from a certain Hölder space for finite time interval. The nonstationary free boundary problem to the Navier-Stokes equations is studied in the second lecture. One has to find a bounded domain \(\Omega_t\subset \mathbb{R}^3\) with boundary \(\partial\Omega_t=\Gamma_t\) and the functions \(v(x,t)=(v_1,v_2,v_3)\) and \(p(x,t)\) satisfying the relations \[ \begin{aligned} &\frac{\partial v}{\partial t}+(v\cdot\nabla)v-\nu\Delta v+\nabla p=0, \quad \nabla\cdot v=0,\quad x\in\Omega_t,\quad t>0\\ &v| _{t=0}=v_0(x), \;x\in\Omega_0\;(\Omega_0\equiv\Omega\;\text{is given}), \tag{2}\\ &\left[T(v,p)n-\sigma Hn\right]_{\Gamma_t}=0, \quad V_n=v\cdot n| _{\Gamma_t}. \end{aligned} \] Here \(T(v,p)\) is the stress tensor, \(H\) is the doubled mean curvature of the free boundary \(\Gamma_t\). The proof of solvability of the problem (2) in Hölder spaces is presented for different cases (\(\sigma=0,\;\sigma>0\)). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1013.00023].




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