Extinction and focusing behaviour of spherical and annular flames described by a free boundary problem

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 563-608

  Galaktionov, Victor A ^a   Hulshof, Josephus ^b   Vazquez, Juan L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behaviour; Extinction; Flame propagation; Focusing; Free boundary problem; Heat equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031232131     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-7824(97)89963-1     Document Type: Article

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