Finite-time singularities in surface-diffusion instabilities are cured by plasticity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lo, Ting Shek ^a   Pomyalov, Anna ^a   Procaccia, Itamar ^a   Zylberg, Jacques ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURING; DRYING; INDENTATION; PLASTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

CHEMICAL-; CUSP SINGULARITY; EXTERNAL-; FINITE-TIME SINGULARITIES; MATERIAL SURFACES; NONHYDROSTATIC STRESS; SHAPE FLUCTUATIONS; SINGULAR SOLUTIONS;

SURFACES;

EID: 50249137725     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.027101     Document Type: Article

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