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A very brief review is given of the striking way in which the Crank-Gupta model has enhanced our understanding of the well-posedness of free and moving boundary problems.
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Dedicated to Professor J. Crank on the occasion of his 80th birthday
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Ockendon, J.R. The role of the Crank-Gupta model in the theory of free and moving boundary problems. Adv Comput Math 6, 281–293 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02127708
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