TY - JOUR T1 - The Hopf Bifurcation in a Parabolic Free Boundary Problem with Double Layers AU - YoonMee Ham JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 3 SP - 277 EP - 288 PY - 1996 DA - 1996/09 SN - 9 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5627.html KW - Evolution equation KW - free boundary problem KW - parabolic equation KW - Hopf bifurcation AB - We consider a parabolic free boundary problem which has a bifurcation parameter and double interfaces. We investigate the sign change in a real part of eigenvalues and the transversality condition as a bifurcation parameter cross the critical value in order to examine the stability of the stationary solutions. The occurence of a Hopf bifurcation will be shown at a critical value.