We provide perturbative estimates for the one-phase Stefan free boundary problem and obtain the regularity of flat free boundaries via a linearization technique in the spirit of the elliptic counterpart established by the first author.
In this paper we analyze the singular set in the Stefan problem and prove the following results: - The singular set has parabolic Hausdorff dimension at most $n-1$. - The solution admits a $C^infty$-expansion at all singular points, up to a set of parabolic Hausdorff dimension at most $n-2$. - In $mathbb R^3$, the free boundary is smooth for almost every time $t$, and the set of singular times $mathcal Ssubset mathbb R$ has Hausdorff dimension at most $1/2$. These results provide us with a refined understanding of the Stefan problems singularities and answer some long-standing open questions in the field.
The free boundary problem for a two-dimensional fluid filtered in porous media is studied. This is known as the one-phase Muskat problem and is mathematically equivalent to the vertical Hele-Shaw problem driven by gravity force. We prove that if the initial free boundary is the graph of a periodic Lipschitz function, then there exists a global-in-time Lipschitz solution in the strong $L^infty_t L^2_x$ sense and it is the unique viscosity solution. The proof requires quantitative estimates for layer potentials and pointwise elliptic regularity in Lipschitz domains. This is the first construction of unique global strong solutions for the Muskat problem with initial data of arbitrary size.
We consider the nonlinear Stefan problem $$ left { begin{array} {ll} -d Delta u=a u-b u^2 ;; & mbox{for } x in Omega (t), ; t>0, u=0 mbox{ and } u_t=mu| abla_x u |^2 ;;&mbox{for } x in partialOmega (t), ; t>0, u(0,x)=u_0 (x) ;; & mbox{for } x in Omega_0, end{array}right. $$ where $Omega(0)=Omega_0$ is an unbounded smooth domain in $mathbb R^N$, $u_0>0$ in $Omega_0$ and $u_0$ vanishes on $partialOmega_0$. When $Omega_0$ is bounded, the long-time behavior of this problem has been rather well-understood by cite{DG1,DG2,DLZ, DMW}. Here we reveal some interesting different behavior for certain unbounded $Omega_0$. We also give a unified approach for a weak solution theory to this kind of free boundary problems with bounded or unbounded $Omega_0$.
We develop a high-order energy method to prove asymptotic stability of flat steady surfaces for the Stefan problem with surface tension - also known as the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson correction.
The aim of this work is to study homogeneous stable solutions to the thin (or fractional) one-phase free boundary problem. The problem of classifying stable (or minimal) homogeneous solutions in dimensions $ngeq3$ is completely open. In this context, axially symmetric solutions are expected to play the same role as Simons cone in the classical theory of minimal surfaces, but even in this simpler case the problem is open. The goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, our first main contribution is to find, for the first time, the stability condition for the thin one-phase problem. Quite surprisingly, this requires the use of large solutions for the fractional Laplacian, which blow up on the free boundary. On the other hand, using our new stability condition, we show that any axially symmetric homogeneous stable solution in dimensions $nle 5$ is one-dimensional, independently of the parameter $sin (0,1)$.