Summary
A complementary volume (co-volume) technique is used to develop a physically appealing algorithm for the solution of degenerate parabolic problems, such as the Stefan problem. It is shown that, these algorithms give rise to a discrete semigroup theory that parallels the continuous problem. In particular, the discrete Stefan problem gives rise to nonlinear semigroups in both the discreteL 1 andH −1 spaces.
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The first author was supported by a grant from the Hughes foundation, and the second author was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. DMS-9002768 while this work was undertaken. This work was supported by the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation through the Center for Nonlinear Analysis.