Wall driven steady flow and heat transfer in a porous tube
Wax deposition in crude oils: a new approach
The complex phenomenon of solid wax deposition in wax saturated crude oils subject to thermal gradients has been treated in a number of papers under very specific assumptions (e.g. thermodynamical equilibrium between dissolved wax and the wax suspended in the oil as a crystallized phase). Here we want to consider a more general framework in which thermodynamical equilibrium may not exist, the whole system may form a gel-like structure in which the segregated solid wax has no diffusivity, the thermal...
Weak formulation for nonlinear hyperbolic Stefan problems.
Weak solutions to a time-dependent heat equation with nonlocal radiation boundary condition and arbitrary -summable right-hand side
We consider a model for transient conductive-radiative heat transfer in grey materials. Since the domain contains an enclosed cavity, nonlocal radiation boundary conditions for the conductive heat-flux are taken into account. We generalize known existence and uniqueness results to the practically relevant case of lower integrable heat-sources, and of nonsmooth interfaces. We obtain energy estimates that involve only the norm of the heat sources for exponents close to one. Such estimates are...
Well-posedness and regularity for a parabolic-hyperbolic Penrose-Fife phase field system
This work is concerned with the study of an initial boundary value problem for a non-conserved phase field system arising from the Penrose-Fife approach to the kinetics of phase transitions. The system couples a nonlinear parabolic equation for the absolute temperature with a nonlinear hyperbolic equation for the phase variable , which is characterized by the presence of an inertial term multiplied by a small positive coefficient . This feature is the main consequence of supposing that the response...