Three-phase boundary motion by surface diffusion: Stability of a mirror symmetric stationary solution

Interfaces and Free Boundaries

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-80

  Ito, Kazuo ^a   Kohsaka, Yoshihito ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free boundary problem; Global existence; Stability; Surface diffusion; Triple junction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007458922     PISSN: 14639963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/IFB/32     Document Type: Article

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