Compressible fluids in a capillary tube

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-229

  Athanassenas, Maria ^a   Finn, Robert ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary surfaces; Capillary tube; Compressible fluid; Elliptic nonlinear second order PDE; Mean curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847753208     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2006.224.201     Document Type: Article

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