Two Stefan problems for a non-classical heat equation with nonlinear thermal coefficients

Abstract

The mathematical analysis of two one-phase unidimensional and non-classical Stefan problems with nonlinear thermal coecients is obtained. Two related cases are considered, one of them has a temperature condition on the fixed face x = 0 and the other one has a flux condition of the type 􀀀q0= p t (q0 > 0) : In the first case, the source function depends on the heat flux at the fixed face x = 0; and in the other case it depends on the temperature at the fixed face x = 0: In both cases, we obtain sufficient conditions in order to have the existence of an explicit solution of a similarity type, which is given by using a double fixed point.