Aggregation, blowup, and collapse: The ABC'S of taxis in reinforced random walks

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1044-1081

  Othmer, Hans G ^a   Stevens, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Blowup; Chemotaxis equations; Collapse; Diffusion approximation; Reinforced random walk

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MICROORGANISMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CHEMOTAXIS EQUATIONS; REINFORCED RANDOM WALK;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 0031207030     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139995288976     Document Type: Article

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