Stability in the Stefan problem with surface tension (i)

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-244

  Hadžić, Mahir ^a   Guo, Yan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy method; Free boundary; Phase transition; Stefan problem; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950944473     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300903405972     Document Type: Article

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