Cahn-Hilliard and thin film equations with nonlinear mobility as gradient flows in weighted-Wasserstein metrics

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 814-850

  Lisini, Stefano ^a   Matthes, Daniel ^b   Savaré, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Fourth order parabolic equation; Metric gradient flow; Thin film equation; Wasserstein metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860635892     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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