Abstract: The Cauchy problem for the Darcy--Stefan model that describes freezing and thawing of a continuous medium filtering through a porous ground is considered. To study the problem, a version of the method of kinetic equation, which was proposed by P.~I.~Plotnikov, is applied, the kinetic formulation of the problem is constructed and, by its virtue, the existence theorem for weak entropy solutions is proved.
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