A moving boundary problem motivated by electric breakdown, I: Spectrum of linear perturbations

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 238, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 888-901

  Tanveer, S ^a   Schafer L ^b   Brau, F ^c   Ebert, U ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electric breakdown; Kinetic undercooling regularization; Laplacian instability; Linear stability analysis; Moving boundary

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; KINETIC THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; UNDERCOOLING;

INITIAL PERTURBATION; KINETIC UNDERCOOLING; LAPLACIANS; LINEAR PERTURBATIONS; MOVING BOUNDARIES; MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR INITIAL-VALUE PROBLEMS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 64249087812     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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