Free Boundary Problems
Subtitle: Theory and Applications
By: edited by Pierluigi Colli, Claudio Verdi, Augusto Visintin
Contributors: Verdi, Claudio; Visintin, A. (Augusto)
Series: International Series of Numerical Mathematics -- 147; International series of numerical mathematics -- 147.
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9783034878937
Subjects: Mathematics; Differential equations, partial; Numerical analysis
Description: Many phenomena of interest for applications are represented by differential equations which are defined in a domain whose boundary is a priori unknown, and is accordingly named a "free boundary". A further quantitative condition is then provided in order to exclude indeterminacy. Free boundary problems thus encompass a broad spectrum which is represented in this state-of-the-art volume by a variety of contributions of researchers in mathematics and applied fields like physics, biology and material sciences. Special emphasis has been reserved for mathematical modelling and for the formulation of new problems.