SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONSERVATION LAWS

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 445-492

  Keyfitz, Barbara Lee ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

degenerate elliptic equations; free boundary problems; Hyperbolic conservation laws; multidimensional problems; self similar reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544433735     PISSN: 02198916     EISSN: 17936993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219891604000160     Document Type: Article

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