Threshold dynamics type approximation schemes for propagating fronts

Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-308

  Ishii, Hitoshi ^a   Pires, Gabriel E ^b   Souganidis, Panagiotis E ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation schemes; Fronts propagation; Level set approach; Motion of hypersurfaces; Threshold dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000115247     PISSN: 00255645     EISSN: 18811167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2969/jmsj/05120267     Document Type: Article

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