The surface diffusion flow for immersed hypersurfaces

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1419-1433

  Escher, Joachim ^a   Mayer, Uwe F ^b   Simonett, Gieri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Center manifolds; Free boundary problem; Immersed hypersurfaces; Maximal regularity; Mean curvature; Numerical simulations; Surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032379074     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141097320675     Document Type: Article

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