The Stefan problem and concavity

Albert Chau, Ben Weinkove*

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Abstract

We construct examples for the one-phase Stefan problem which show that α-concavity of the solution is in general not preserved in time, for 0 ≤ α< 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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number176
JournalCalculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Volume60
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021

Funding

Research supported in part by NSERC Grant 327637-06 and NSF Grant DMS-1709544.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

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