Recent advances on similarity solutions arising during free convection

Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Application

Volumn 63, Issue , 2005, Pages 83-92

  Brighi, Bernard ^a   Hoernel, Jean David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Boundary value problem; Similarity solution; Third order nonlinear differential equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249012425     PISSN: 14211750     EISSN: 23740280     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7384-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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