Solid liquid phase changes with different densities

Details Solid liquid phase changes with different densities Solid liquid phase changes with different densities

2008-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2915v1

Quart. Appl. Math., 66 (2008), 609-632

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Analysis of PDEs

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In this paper we present a new thermodynamically consistent phase transition model describing the evolution of a liquid substance, e.g., water, in a rigid container $\Omega$ when we freeze the container. Since the density $\varrho_{2}$ of ice with volume fraction $\beta_{2}$, is lower than the density $\varrho_{1}$ of water with volume fraction $\beta_{1}$, experiments - for instance the freezing of a glass bottle filled with water - show that the water pressure increases up to the rupture of the bottle. When the container is not impermeable, freezing may produce a non-homogeneous material, for instance water ice or sorbet. Here we describe a general class of phase transition processes including this example as particular case. Moreover, we study the resulting nonlinear and singular PDE system from the analytical viewpoint recovering existence of a global (in time) weak solution and also uniqueness for some particular choices of the nonlinear functions involved.

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