Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications: 409 (Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series) - Softcover

Athanasopoulos, Ioannis; Rodrigues, Jose Francisco; Makrakis, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158488018X ISBN 13: 9781584880189

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999

Synopsis

Free boundary problems arise in an enormous number of situations in nature and technology. They hold a strategic position in pure and applied sciences and thus have been the focus of considerable research over the last three decades. Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications presents the work and results of experts at the forefront of current research in mathematics, material sciences, chemical engineering, biology, and physics. It contains the plenary lectures and contributed papers of the 1997 International Interdisciplinary Congress proceedings held in Crete.
The main topics addressed include free boundary problems in fluid and solid mechanics, combustion, the theory of filtration, and glaciology. Contributors also discuss material science modeling, recent mathematical developments, and numerical analysis advances within their presentations of more specific topics, such as singularities of interfaces, cusp cavitation and fracture, capillary fluid dynamics of film coating, dynamics of surface growth, phase transition kinetics, and phase field models.
With the implications of free boundary problems so far reaching, it becomes important for researchers from all of these fields to stay abreast of new developments. Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications provides the opportunity to do just that, presenting recent advances from more than 50 researchers at the frontiers of science, mathematics, and technology.

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"Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications presents the work and results of experts at the forefront of current research in mathematics, material sciences, chemical engineering, biology, and physics. It contains the plenary lectures and contributed papers of the 1997 International Interdisciplinary Congress proceedings held in Crete."--BOOK JACKET. "This book should be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in partial differential equations and their applications, numerical analysis, computational mathematics, and engineering."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 158488018X
• ISBN 13: 9781584880189
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366