Smoothing and decay estimates for nonlinear diffusion equations : Equations of porous medium type

Smoothing and Decay Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Equations : Equations of Porous Medium Type

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-248

  Vázquez, Juan Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Classical heat equation; Decay rates; Delayed regularity; Extinction in finite time; Nonlinearities of power type; Singular parabolicity; Smoothing; Time decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920414556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199202973.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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