The Stefan problem and concavity

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02061-YMaRDI QIDQ2048893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Albert Chau, Ben Weinkove

Publication date 24 August 2021

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04284

zbMATH Keywords

concavityfree boundary problemStefan problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations (35B99) Heat equation (35K05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22)

Abstract: We construct examples for the one-phase Stefan problem which show that $alpha$-concavity of the solution is in general not preserved in time, for $0lealpha<1/2$. In particular, this shows that, in contrast to the case of the heat equation for a fixed convex domain, log concavity is not preserved for solutions of the Stefan problem.

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