Larson-Penston Self-similar Gravitational Collapse

Using numerical integration, in 1969 Penston (Mon Not R Astr Soc 144:425-448, 1969) and Larson (Mon Not R Astr Soc 145:271-295, 1969) independently discovered a self-similar solution describing the collapse of a self-gravitating asymptotically flat fluid with the isothermal equation of state p = k ϱ , k > 0 , and subject to Newtonian gravity. We rigorously prove the existence of such a Larson-Penston solution.

Global stability of steady states in the classical Stefan problem for general boundary shapes

The classical one-phase Stefan problem (without surface tension) allows for a continuum of steady-state solutions, given by an arbitrary (but sufficiently smooth) domain together with zero temperature. We prove global-in-time stability of such steady states, assuming a sufficient degree of smoothness on the initial domain, but without any a priori restriction on the convexity properties of the initial shape. This is an extension of our previous result (Hadžić & Shkoller 2014 Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 68, 689-757 (doi:10.1002/cpa.21522)) in which we studied nearly spherical shapes.