Complementary variational principles for a class of nonlinear convective mass transfer problems (Q759992)

Complementary variational principles are formulated for certain nonlinear partial differential equations of the form \(-(\partial /\partial x)[a(x,y)\partial \phi /\partial x]-(\partial /\partial y)[b(x,y)\partial \phi /\partial y]+c(x,y)(\partial \phi /\partial x)+d(x,y)\partial \phi /\partial y=f(\phi)\) in D with \(\phi =0\) on \(\partial D\). Application is made to a convective diffusion equation related to a chemical reaction.