Travelling wave solutions for degenerate pseudo-parabolic equations modelling two-phase flow in porous media

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1361-1383

  Van Duijn, C J ^a   Fan, Y ^a   Peletier, L A ^b   Pop, I S ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Degenerate; Dynamic capillary pressure; Non linear; Pseudo parabolic equations; Sharp travelling waves

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE; DEGENERATE CASE; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; HIGHER ORDER TERMS; NON-LINEAR; NON-SMOOTH; PSEUDO-PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTION; TRAVELLING WAVES;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84872032116     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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