The clamped-plate equation for the limaçon

Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-374

  Dall'Acqua, Anna ^a   Sweers, Guido ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biharmonic; Clamped plate; Nonconvex; Positivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944466177     PISSN: 03733114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10231-004-0121-9     Document Type: Article

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