Renormalization study of two-dimensional convergent solutions of the porous medium equation

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 344-359

  Betelu S I ^a   Aronson, D G ^a   Angenent, S B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Focusing; Nonlinear; Porous medium flow; Renormalization; Self similarity; Similarity; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004276842     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00209-2     Document Type: Article

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