Existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for precipitation fronts: A novel hyperbolic free boundary problem in several space variables

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1351-1361

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Souganidis, Panagiotis E ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 77956474101     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20337     Document Type: Article

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