Multi-spike stationary solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation in higher-dimension and instability

Advances in Differential Equations

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-69

  Bates, Peter W ^a   Dancer, E Norman ^b   Shi, Junping ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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