A moving boundary model motivated by electric breakdown: II. Initial value problem

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 239, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1542-1559

  Kao, C Y ^a   Brau, F ^b,c   Ebert, U ^b,d   Schafer L ^e   Tanveer, S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electric breakdown; Initial value problem; Kinetic undercooling regularization; Laplacian instability; Moving boundary

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; UNDERCOOLING;

KINETIC UNDERCOOLING; LAPLACIANS; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SMOOTH INTERFACE;

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 77953872666     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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