Unstable sixth-order thin film equation: I. Blow-up similarity solutions

Nonlinearity

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1799-1841

  Evans, J D ^a   Galaktionov, V A ^a   King, J R ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547430600     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: 13616544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/20/8/002     Document Type: Article

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