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    Parameter identification in non-isothermal nucleation and growth processes
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2013) Hömberg, Dietmar; Lu, Shuai; Sakamoto, Kenichi; Yamamoto, Masahiro
    We study non-isothermal nucleation and growth phase transformations, which are described by a generalized Avrami model for the phase transition coupled with an energy balance to account for recalescence effects. The main novelty of our work is the identification of temperature dependent nucleation rates. We prove that such rates can be uniquely identified from measurements in a subdomain and apply an optimal control approach to develop a numerical strategy for its computation.
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    A nonlocal phase-field model with nonconstant specific heat
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Krejčí, Pavel; Rocca, Elisabetta; Sprekels, Jürgen
    We prove the existence, uniqueness, thermodynamic consistency, global boundedness from both above and below, and continuous data dependence for a strong solution to an integrodifferential model for nonisothermal phase transitions under nonhomogeneous mixed boundary conditions. The specific heat is allowed to depend on the order parameter, and the convex component of the free energy may or may not be singular.