A Free Boundary Problem for a Quasi-linear Degenerate Elliptic Equation: Regular Reflection of Weak Shocks

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-92

  Čanić, Sunčica ^a   Keyfitz, Barbara Lee ^a   Kim, Eun Heui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 0036133616     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.10013     Document Type: Article

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