May 2022 Zero kinetic undercooling limit in the supercooled Stefan problem
Graeme Baker, Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
Author Affiliations +
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58(2): 861-871 (May 2022). DOI: 10.1214/21-AIHP1194

Abstract

We study the solutions of the one-phase supercooled Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling, which describes the freezing of a supercooled liquid, in one spatial dimension. Assuming that the initial temperature lies between the equilibrium freezing point and the characteristic invariant temperature throughout the liquid our main theorem shows that, as the kinetic undercooling parameter tends to zero, the free boundary converges to the (possibly irregular) free boundary in the supercooled Stefan problem without kinetic undercooling, whose uniqueness has been recently established in (Delarue, Nadtochiy and Shkolnikov (2019), Ledger and Søjmark (2018)). The key tools in the proof are a Feynman–Kac formula, which expresses the free boundary in the problem with kinetic undercooling through a local time of a reflected process, and a resulting comparison principle for the free boundaries with different kinetic undercooling parameters.

Nous étudions les solutions de la phase unique de surfusion du problème de Stefan, avec surfusion cinétique, qui décrit le gel d’un liquide en surfusion en une dimension spatiale. En supposant que la température initiale est entre le point d’équilibre de gel et la température invariante caractéristique dans le liquide, notre théorème principal montre que, lorsque le paramètre de surfusion cinétique tend vers 0, la frontière libre converge vers la frontière libre (éventuellement irrégulière) dans le problème de surfusion de Stefan sans surfusion cinétique. L’unicité de cette dernière a été montrée récemment dans (Delarue, Nadtochiy and Shkolnikov (2019), Ledger and Søjmark (2018)). Les outils clés de la preuve sont une formule de Feynman–Kac, qui exprime la frontière libre dans le problème avec surfusion cinétique à travers le temps local d’un processus réfléchi, et un principe de comparaison pour les frontières libres avec différents paramètres de surfusion cinétique.

Funding Statement

The first author was partially supported by an NSERC PGS-D scholarship and a Princeton SEAS innovation research grant. The second author was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS-1811723 and a Princeton SEAS innovation research grant.

Citation

Download Citation

Graeme Baker. Mykhaylo Shkolnikov. "Zero kinetic undercooling limit in the supercooled Stefan problem." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58 (2) 861 - 871, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AIHP1194

Information

Received: 14 September 2020; Revised: 21 May 2021; Accepted: 27 May 2021; Published: May 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 15 May 2022

MathSciNet: MR4421610
zbMATH: 1494.35197
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-AIHP1194

Subjects:
Primary: 60J70
Secondary: 35R35 , 60J55 , 80A22

Keywords: Feynman–Kac formula , free boundary problems , Kinetic undercooling , Local time , Reflected processes , supercooled Stefan problem

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

JOURNAL ARTICLE
11 PAGES

This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
+ SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

Vol.58 • No. 2 • May 2022
Back to Top