Porous medium flow in a tube. Traveling waves and KPP behavior

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 731-751

  Vázquez, Juan Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Curved front; Flow in a tube; Free boundary; Porous medium equation; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348817270     PISSN: 02191997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219199707002587     Document Type: Article

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