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The propagation of turbulent bursts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2009

Shoshana Kamin
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Juan Luis Vazquez
Affiliation:
División de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

We consider the equation of turbulent burst propagation

with m > 1 and k ≥ 0, or, in an equivalent formulation

We consider initial data u(x, 0) which are radially symmetric and have compact support; x = l(t) = r(T) describes the interface of the solution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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