Approach to self-similarity in Smoluchowski's coagulation equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1197-1232

  Menon, Govind ^a   Pego, Robert L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

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EID: 4043170665     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3048     Document Type: Article

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