Coarsening rates for a droplet model: Rigorous upper bounds

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 503-529

  Otto, Felix ^a   Rump, Tobias ^a   Slepčev, Dejan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarsening; Thin film equation; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

DROPLET SIZE; EVOLUTION EQUATION; HEURISTIC ARGUMENTS; THIN FILM EQUATION; WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMBER THEORY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33947231538     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050630192     Document Type: Article

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