This monograph has grown out of research we started in 1987, although the foun- dations were laid in the 1970's when both of us were working on our doctoral theses, trying to generalize the now classic paper of Oleinik, Kalashnikov and Chzhou on nonlinear degenerate diffusion. Brian worked under the guidance of Bert Peletier at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, and, later at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands on extending the earlier mathematics to include nonlinear convection; while Robert worked at Lomonosov State Univer- sity in Moscow under the supervision of...
This monograph has grown out of research we started in 1987, although the foun- dations were laid in the 1970's when both of us were working on our do...
