Traveling wave solutions of harmonic heat flow

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 489-509

  Bertsch, M ^a,b   Muratov, C B ^c   Primi, I ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bistable potential; Calculus of variations; Director field; Harmonic map; Singularity; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744517061     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-006-0016-2     Document Type: Article

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