Self-similar blow-up for a reaction-diffusion system

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 99-119

  Herrero, M A ^a   Medina, E ^b   Velazquez J J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blow up; Matched asymptotic expansions; Reaction diffusion systems; Self similar behaviour

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; PARABOLIC EQUATION; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEM; SELF SIMILAR BLOW UP;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032154585     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00104-6     Document Type: Article

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