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Verti, C. (1994). Numerical aspects of parabolic free boundary and hysteresis problems. In: Visintin, A. (eds) Phase Transitions and Hysteresis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073398

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