Multitransition homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions of the extended Fisher-Kolmogorov equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-228

  Kalies, W D ^a   VanderVorst, R C A M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0030295224     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1996.0161     Document Type: Article

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