Computation of traveling waves for spatially discrete bistable reaction-diffusion equations

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 157-169

  Elmer, Christopher E ^a   Van Vleck, Erik S ^a  

^a NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice anisotropy; Propagation failure; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LATTICE ANISOTROPY; PROPAGATION FAILURE; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; TRAVELING WAVES;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030081653     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9274(95)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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