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Cavitation solutions to homogeneous van der Waals type fluids involving phase transitions


Author: Baisheng Yan
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 53 (1995), 721-730
MSC: Primary 35Q35; Secondary 76B99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1359507
MathSciNet review: MR1359507
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Abstract: In this paper, weak solutions to some special Cauchy problems involving phase transitions in ${R^3}$ are constructed. These solutions exhibit the point singularity known as cavitation.


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