Convective stabilization of a Laplacian moving boundary problem with kinetic undercooling

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 292-310

  Ebert, Ute ^a,b   Meulenbroek, Bernard ^a,c   Schäfer, Lothar ^d  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convective stabilization; Kinetic undercooling; Laplacian growth; Moving boundaries; Streamer discharges

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; IONIZATION; LAPLACE EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVECTIVE STABILIZATION; KINETIC UNDERCOOLING; LAPLACIAN GROWTH; MOVING BOUNDARIES; STREAMER DISCHARGES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 40849096721     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070683908     Document Type: Article

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