A monotone approximation for a nonlinear nonautonomous size-structured population model

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 103-113

  Ackleh, Azmy S ^a   Deng, Keng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear convergence; Monotone approximation; Nonlinear nonautonomous size structured model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009431669     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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