The motion of whips and chains

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2011.05.005zbMath1233.35137arXiv1105.1944OpenAlexW2059352377MaRDI QIDQ549227

Stephen C. Preston

Publication date: 7 July 2011

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1944

zbMATH Keywords

energy estimatesweighted Sobolev spacelocal existence and uniquenesscoupled pendulamotion of discrete chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strings (74K05) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic systems (35L53)

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