Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 3, Issue 4, July 1996 pp. 467-474.

On Hele-Shaw models with surface tension

Authors: Joachim Escher and Gieri Simonett
Author institution: University of Basel, and Vanderbilt University

Summary: It is shown that surface tension effects on the free boundary have a regularizing effect for Hele-Shaw models, which implies existence and uniqueness of classical solutions for general initial domains.

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