Self-similar isothermal irrotational motion for the euler, euler-poisson systems and the formation of the plasma sheath

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 233-246

  Feldman, Mikhail ^a,b   Ha, Seung Yeal ^b   Slemrod, Marshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Euler equation; Plasma sheath; Self similar solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748818041     PISSN: 02198916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021989160600077X     Document Type: Article

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