Remarks on a Smoluchowski equation

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-112

  Constantin, Peter ^a   Kevrekidis, Ioannis ^b   Titi, Edriss S ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Determining modes; Gradient bounds; Long time dynamics; Nematic liquid crystalline polymers; Non Newtonian fluids; Number of steady solutions; Rheology; Smoluchowski equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942666411     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2004.11.101     Document Type: Article

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