Chapter 4 The Cahn-Hilliard Equation

Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 201-228

  Novick Cohen, Amy ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 66049157387     PISSN: 18745717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5717(08)00004-2     Document Type: Review

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