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# A well-posedness result for irreversible phase transitions with a nonlinear heat flux law

• In this paper, we deal with a PDE system describing a phase transition problem characterized by irreversible evolution and ruled by a nonlinear heat flux law. Its derivation comes from the modelling approach proposed by M. Frémond. Our main result consists in showing the global-in-time existence and the uniqueness of the solution of the related initial and boundary value problem.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 80A22, 35K55, 35B45.

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