Global stability and bounds for coarsening rates within the mean-field theory for domain coarsening

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1679-1708

  Niethammer, B ^a   Velazquez J J L ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior; Bounds on coarsening rates; Dependence on initial data; Domain coarsening; Kinetics of phase transitions; Self similarity; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750336108     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300500481533     Document Type: Article

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