Selfsimilar blowup of unstable thin-film equations

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1697-1738

  Slepcev D ^a   Pugh, M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Selfsimilar solutions; Singularity formation; Thin film equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644436781     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2005.54.2569     Document Type: Article

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