Matzoh ball soup revisited: The boundary regularity issue

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2023-2032

  Magnanini, Rolando ^a   Sakaguchi, Shigeru ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cauchy problem; heat equation; initial behavior; initial boundary value problem; nonlinear diffusion; sphere; stationary level surface

Indexed keywords

CAUCHY PROBLEMS; HEAT EQUATION; INITIAL BEHAVIOR; INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION;

HEAT TRANSFER; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; SPHERES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84884902304     PISSN: 01704214     EISSN: 10991476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mma.1551     Document Type: Article

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