When does coarsening occur in the dynamics of one-dimensional fronts?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Politi, Paolo ^a,b,c   Misbah, Chaouqi ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHAOS THEORY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE MODULATION; SOLIDIFICATION; VISCOSITY;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CRYSTAL SURFACES; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; NEWTON'S EQUATION; SPATIAL PERIODICITY; STATIONARY SOLUTIONS; STEADY-STATE SOLUTION;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 10044229086     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.090601     Document Type: Article

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