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A parabolic problem of the following form is considered
wherea is a positive constant,f is a datum and λ is a maximal monotone graph. This system contains the (weak formulation of the)Stefan problem as a particular case. Here the problem (1), (2) is approximated by coupling (1) with therelaxed equation
The problem (1), (3) is then discretized in time by thesemi-explicit scheme
a finite element space discretization and quadrature formulae are then introduced. Thus at each time-step (5) is replaced by a finite number ofindependent algebraic equations, which can be solved with respect to the barycentral values ofw n; then (4) is reduced to alinear system of algebraic equations having as unknowns the nodal values of ϑn. Assuming the condition τ/ε≦a, the fully discrete scheme is stable and its solution converges to that of (1), (2). Error estimates are proved. The results of some numerical experiments are discussed; they show that the present method is faster than other classical procedures.
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Verdi, C., Visintin, A. Error estimates for a semi-explicit numerical scheme for Stefan-type problems. Numer. Math. 52, 165–185 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01398688
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