On the stationary Cahn-Hilliard equation: Interior spike solutions

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-267

  Wei, Juncheng ^a   Winter, Matthias ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phase transition; Spike layers; Weak convergence of measures, viscosity solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000698557     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1998.3479     Document Type: Article

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