We prove locally in time the existence of a smooth solution for multidimensional two-phase Stefan problem for degenerate parabolic equations of the porous medium type. We establish also natural Hölder class for the boundary conditions in the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for a degenerate parabolic equation.Key words: free boundary, Stefan problem, classical solvability, porous medium equation, degenerate parabolic equations.
To the memory of Professor B.V.BazaliyThe final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00030-014-0280-3 1 Statement of the problem and the main result Classical solvability of the Stefan problem for uniformly parabolic equations has been well studied -see for example papers [1] -[6] and the references therein. At the same time, as has long been known, the heat transfer model based on uniformly parabolic equations, has some properties which can not be observed in the reality, in particular, the infinite speed of propagation of disturbances. We also know that more accurate model of the heat transfer is the model which is based on degenerate parabolic equations, such as equations of the form where β(u) is a discontinuous function of the form 1