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On an anisotropic fractional Stefan-type problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions
Mathematics in Engineering 2023, 5(3): 1-38
Published: 15 June 2023
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In this work, we consider the fractional Stefan-type problem in a Lipschitz bounded domain Ω R d with time-dependent Dirichlet boundary condition for the temperature ϑ = ϑ ( x , t ), ϑ = g on Ω c × ] 0 , T [, and initial condition η 0 for the enthalpy η = η ( x , t ), given in Ω × ] 0 , T [ by

η t + L A s ϑ = f with η β ( ϑ ) ,

where L A s is an anisotropic fractional operator defined in the distributional sense by

L A s u , v = R d A D s u D s v d x ,

β is a maximal monotone graph, A ( x ) is a symmetric, strictly elliptic and uniformly bounded matrix, and D s is the distributional Riesz fractional gradient for 0 < s < 1. We show the existence of a unique weak solution with its corresponding weak regularity. We also consider the convergence as s 1 towards the classical local problem, the asymptotic behaviour as t , and the convergence of the two-phase Stefan-type problem to the one-phase Stefan-type problem by varying the maximal monotone graph β.

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