A meshless method for an inverse two-phase one-dimensional nonlinear Stefan problem

Abstract

We extend a meshless method of fundamental solutions recently proposed by the authors for the one-dimensional two-phase inverse linear Stefan problem, to the nonlinear case. In this latter situation the free surface is also considered unknown which is more realistic from the practical point of view. Building on the earlier work, the solution is approximated in each phase by a linear combination of fundamental solutions to the heat equation. The implementation and analysis are more complicated in the present situation since one needs to deal with a nonlinear minimization problem to identify the free surface. Furthermore, the inverse problem is ill-posed since small errors in the input measured data can cause large deviations in the desired solution. Therefore, regularization needs to be incorporated in the objective function which is minimized in order to obtain a stable solution. Numerical results are presented and discussed.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2014.03.004
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Additional Information: Creative commons attribution 3.0 Unported. Funding: EPSRC; Isaac Newton Institute for the Visiting Fellowships within the programme on “Inverse Problems” (November-December 2011).
Uncontrolled Keywords: heat conduction,regularization,two-phase change,method of fundamental solutions,inverse Stefan problem
Publication ISSN: 1872-7166
Last Modified: 04 Nov 2024 08:38
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2014 14:45
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2014-07
Published Online Date: 2014-03-29
Authors: Johansson, B. Tomas (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-9066-7922)
Lesnic, Daniel
Reeve, Thomas

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