Long-wave instabilities and saturation in thin film equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 625-661

  Bertozzi, A L ^a   Pugh, M C ^a  

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EID: 0032368532     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199806)51:6<625::AID-CPA3>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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