On the parabolicity of the Muskat problem: Well-posedness, fingering, and stability results

Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-218

  Escher, Joachim ^a   Matioc, Bogdan Vasile ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical solution; Stability; Steady state solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953645127     PISSN: 02322064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/ZAA/1431     Document Type: Article

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