A shooting argument approach to a sharp-type solution for nonlinear degenerate Fisher-KPP equations

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 211-221

  Sánchez Garduño, Faustino ^a,c   Maini, Philip K ^a   Kappos, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR DEGENERATOR FISHER EQUATIONS; SADDLE SADDLE HETEROCLINIC TRAJECTORY; SHOOTING ARGUMENT APPROACH; TRAVELLING WAVE VARIABLES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0030382844     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/57.3.211     Document Type: Article

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