Mathematical Modelling of Liquid Snowflakes

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• Andrew Lacey (Heriot-Watt)
• Thursday 09 October 2014, 16:00-17:00
• Muirhead 122.

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A “liquid snowflake” or “Tyndall star” is a small, thin, star-shaped region of liquid water produced when ice is melted by absorption of light. In the early stages of its growth, the liquid inclusion appears as a small, approximately axially symmetric, lens-like object. We investigate some models, based on having a highly anisotropic “kinetic-undercooling” condition on the ice/water boundary, to try to understand the morphology of such a “Tyndall shape”.

We shall first give a brief introduction to the mathematical models of melting or freezing, the so-called Stefan problems.

This talk is part of the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series series.

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