# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2013, 6(2): 439-460. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.439

## Well-posedness of an extended model for water-ice phase transitions

 1 Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Žitná 25, CZ-11567 Praha 1 2 WIAS Weierstrass Institute, Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, Via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano

Received  July 2011 Revised  December 2011 Published  November 2012

We propose an improved model explaining the occurrence of high stresses due to the difference in specific volumes during phase transitions between water and ice. The unknowns of the resulting evolution problem are the absolute temperature, the volume increment, and the liquid fraction. The main novelty here consists in including the dependence of the specific heat and of the speed of sound upon the phase. These additional nonlinearities bring new mathematical difficulties which require new estimation techniques based on Moser iteration. We establish the existence of a global solution to the corresponding initial-boundary value problem, as well as lower and upper bounds for the absolute temperature. Assuming constant heat conductivity, we also prove uniqueness and continuous data dependence of the solution.
Citation: Pavel Krejčí, Elisabetta Rocca. Well-posedness of an extended model for water-ice phase transitions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2013, 6 (2) : 439-460. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.439
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