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A phase transition speed estimate in the Stefan problem*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Weian Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We give an estimate of the time needed for a phase transition to be completed in the Stefan problem. Our method is to compare the density of the diffusion process associated with the Stefan problem, with that of Brownian motion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1996

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