Absence of splash singularities for surface quasi-geostrophic sharp fronts and the muskat problem

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 635-639

  Gancedo, Francisco ^a   Strain, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Incompressible flow; Porous media

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTOUR; CURVATURE; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MUSKAT PROBLEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARP FRONT SURFACE QUASI GEOSTROPHIC EQUATION; SIMULATION; SPLASH SINGULARITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VELOCITY;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; POROUS MEDIA;

HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84892577446     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320554111     Document Type: Article

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