Existence and uniqueness of solutions to a concentrated capacity problem with change of phase
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Journal of Applied Mathematics
- Vol. 1 (4) , 339-351
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792500000280
Abstract
A concentrated capacity problem is posed for the heat equation in a multidimensional domain. In the concentrated capacity (i.e. in a portion of the boundary of the domain) a change of phase takes place, and a Stefan-like problem is posed. This scheme has been introduced in the literature as the formal limiting case of a certain class of diffusion problems. Our main result is a theorem of continuous dependence of the solution on the data. It is also used to prove the existence of the solution (in a weak sense), assuming only integrability of the data. The solution is found as the limit of the solutions of the approximating problems.Keywords
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