Formal asymptotics of bubbling in the harmonic map heat flow

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1682-1717

  Van Den Berg, Jan Bouwe ^a   Hulshof, Josephus ^a   King, John R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blowup; Bubbling; Harmonic maps; Matched asymptotics; Nematic liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

MATHEMATICAL SINGULARITIES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0345327643     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139902408874     Document Type: Article

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