On the rate of convergence to equilibrium in the Becker-Döring equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 518-543

  Jabin, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Niethammer, Barbara ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Becker D ring equations; Entropy dissipation methods; Rate of convergence to equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038346787     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0396(03)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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