The forced Burgers equation, plant roots and Schrodinger's eigenfunctions

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 25-39

  Broadbridge, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forced burgers; Plant roots; Schr dinger

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

FORCED BURGERS EQUATION; PLANT ROOTS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 0033377077     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004585721517     Document Type: Article

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