Focusing of an elongated hole in porous medium flow

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 151, Issue 2-4, 2001, Pages 228-252

  Angenent, S B ^a   Aronson, D G ^b   Betelu, S I ^b   Lowengrub, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Nonlinear; Porous medium flow; Self similarity; Similarity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DIFFUSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

POROUS MEDIUM FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0035339108     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00150-6     Document Type: Article

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