The Evans function and stability criteria for degenerate viscous shock waves

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 837-855

  Howard, Peter ^a   Zumbrun, Kevin ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation Laws; Degeneracy; Evans function; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942662407     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.837     Document Type: Article

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