Stability of contact discontinuity for the Boltzmann equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 698-742

  Huang, Feimin ^a   Yang, Tong ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equations; Contact discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747196065     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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