Instability of spherical interfaces in a nonlinear free boundary problem

Advances in Differential Equations

Volumn 5, Issue 4-6, 2000, Pages 747-772

  Chen, X ^a   Taniguchi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

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