Approximation of the Heat Equation in a Variable Domain with Application to the Stefan Problem

P. Lesaint, Rachid Touzani

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis · 1989 · 10 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

A discretization of the one-dimensional heat equation in a time-dependent domain is considered, with particular emphasis on a generalization of the Crank–Nicholson scheme for the discretization with respect to time. Application to a one-dimensional Stefan problem is given, with an iterative algorithm to follow the moving boundary. Numerical results agree well with the theoretical error bounds.

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