Traveling Waves in Time Almost Periodic Structures Governed by Bistable Nonlinearities: II. Existence

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-101

  Shen, Wenxian ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033589576     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1999.3652     Document Type: Article

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