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  1. Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Charles M. Elliott & Zheng Songmu

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Elliott, C.M., Songmu, Z. On the Cahn-Hilliard equation. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 96, 339–357 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00251803

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