Data di Pubblicazione:
2008
Citazione:
Solid-liquid phase changes with different densities / M. Fremond, E. Rocca. - In: QUARTERLY OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS. - ISSN 0033-569X. - 66:4(2008), pp. 609-632. [10.1090/S0033-569X-08-01100-0]
Abstract:
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.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Global existence of solutions; Phase transitions with voids; Singular and nonlinear PDE system
Elenco autori:
M. Fremond, E. Rocca
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