As flat as possible

SIAM Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 491-507

  Jacobsen, Jon ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculus of variations; Gradient flow; Harmonic functions; Minimal surfaces; Pointwise estimates; Sobolev gradients

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ELLIPTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GRADIENT FLOW; MINIMAL SURFACES; PARABOLIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POINTWISE ESTIMATES; SOBOLEV GRADIENTS;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548500804     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060649495     Document Type: Article

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