On the stationary Cahn Hilliard equation: Bubble solutions

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1492-1518

  Wei, Juncheng ^a   Winter, Matthias ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Exponential asymptotics; Phase transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032374539     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141097320663     Document Type: Article

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