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Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 181939, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/181939
Research Article

Numerical Investigation of the Steady State of a Driven Thin Film Equation

A. J. Hutchinson, C. Harley, and E. Momoniat

Centre for Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics and Applications, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits Johannesburg 2050, South Africa

Received 6 November 2012; Accepted 29 December 2012

Academic Editor: Mehmet Pakdemirli

Copyright © 2013 A. J. Hutchinson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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