A nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equation with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1761-1779

  Gualdani, Maria Pia ^a   Jüngel, Ansgar ^a   Toscani, Giuseppe ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entropy entropy production method; Existence and uniqueness of nonnegative solutions; Exponential decay in time; Fourth order elliptic equation; Fourth order parabolic equation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

ENTROPY ENTROPY PRODUCTION METHOD; EXPONENTIAL DECAY; FOURTH ORDER ELLIPTIC EQUATION; FOURTH ORDER PARABOLIC EQUATION; NONNEGATIVE SOLUTIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 32544458267     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141004444615     Document Type: Article

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