Special Session 89: 

Stefan/Navier-Stokes Problems -- Quasi-variational Inequality Approach --

NOBUYUKI KENMOCHI
Chiba University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    M. Gokieli and M. Niezgodka
Abstract:
This work is motivated by modelling the formation of ice fields. In the beginin of winter one can see a lot of pieces of ice floating on the sea in the north. They reach the beach and accumulate there, and form a large ice-field. We are interested in the dynamics of such a natural phenomenon. To make a mathematical model for it we set some simplified postulations (i) the water-ice phase change takes place with constant latent heat, $1$, in the sea and the dynamics of the phase function $u=u(x,t)$ obeys the enthalpy formulation. Moreover, the region is divided into three parts, $u\le 0$, $0< u