# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2013, 6(2): 331-351. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.331

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

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia

Received  October 2011 Revised  March 2012 Published  November 2012

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.
Citation: Giovanna Bonfanti, Fabio Luterotti. A well-posedness result for irreversible phase transitions with a nonlinear heat flux law. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2013, 6 (2) : 331-351. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.331
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##### References:
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