Nonlinear non-local elliptic equation modelling electrostatic actuation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2081, 2007, Pages 1323-1337

  Lin, Fanghua ^a   Yang, Yisong ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic actuation; Nonlinear methods; Singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348931123     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1816     Document Type: Article

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