A collection of self contained state-of-the art surveys. The authors have made an effort to achieve readability for mathematicians and scientists from other fields, for this series of handbooks to be a new reference for research, learning and teaching.
- written by well-known experts in the field - self contained volume in series covering one of the most rapid developing topics in mathematicsPreface Contributors 1. F. Brock: Rearrangements and applications to symmetry problems in PDE 2. A. Farina: Liouville-type theorems for elliptic problems 3. M. Guedda: Similarity and pseudosimilarity solutions of degenerate boundary layer equations 4. N. Kenmochi: Monotonicity and compactness methods for nonlinear variational inequalities 5. H. Morimoto: Stationary Navier-Stokes flow in 2-D Channels involving the general outflow condition 6. P. Pucci and J. Serrin: Maximum principles for elliptic partial differential equations 7. V. Radelescu: Singular phenomena in nonlinear elliptic problems from blow-up boundary solutions to equations with singular nonlinearities Index