Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for an integral boundary value problem

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3910-3918

  Yang, Zhilin ^a  

^a QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A priori estimate; Positive solution; Strong maximum principle; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

A PRIORI ESTIMATE; POSITIVE SOLUTION; STRONG MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; UNIQUENESS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 53949087178     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2007.10.026     Document Type: Article

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