Existence of traveling waves in a biodegradation model for organic contaminants

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-94

  Murray, Regan ^a   Xin, J X ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Organic contaminants; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032280979     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141096313392     Document Type: Article

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