Free Boundary Problems. Theory and Applications
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Author(s): P. Colli et al.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3764321938
Format: hardback
346pp
Price: €98
Review Date: 02 March 2004
Review: These are the proceedings of the conference held in Italy in June 2002. A ‘free boundary’ is the boundary of a domain whose boundary is a priori unknown, defined by differential equations. A further condition is provided in order to exclude indeterminacy. Free boundaries occur as fronts between saturated and unsaturated regions in filtration through porous media, between plastic and elastic phases in continuous mechanics, between magnetic domains in ferromagnetism and so on. Topics include: free boundary problems in polymer science and biomathematics; image processing; grain boundary motion; numerical aspects of free boundary problems; modelling in crystal growth, and transitions in anisotropic materials.