Existence and uniqueness for a free boundary problem arising in combustion theory

Interfaces and Free Boundaries

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-210

  Hamel, F ^a,c   Monneau, R ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Conical shape; Free boundary problem; Overdetermined elliptic equations; Sliding method; Travelling fronts

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942569917     PISSN: 14639963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/IFB/57     Document Type: Article

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