Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
838476 Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications 2007 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

We focus on the thermodynamic consistency of a class of phase change models recently proposed by Frémond [Non-smooth Thermomechanics. Springer, Berlin, 2002]. By establishing a maximum principle, we prove that, under rather weak assumptions on data, the temperature remains almost everywhere strictly positive. This general result applies to all dissipative models of this class that have been taken into account in the literature.

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