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The Stefan Problem Revisited

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Mathematical Models for Phase Change Problems

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A large class of mathematical models for phase change problems in thermo-diffusion phenomena belong to the family of the so-called Stefan problems, after the Austrian mathematical-physicist Joseph Stefan, who, exactly one century ago, published a series of papers on some of these problems [St]. However, the first work on this type of problems seems to be due to Lamé and Clapeyron [LC] and since then they have interested a large number of mathematicians.

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Rodrigues, J.F. (1989). The Stefan Problem Revisited. In: Rodrigues, J.F. (eds) Mathematical Models for Phase Change Problems. International Series of Numerical Mathematics, vol 88. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9148-6_8

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