Evolution of travelling waves in fractional order autocatalysis with decay. II. The initial boundary value problem

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1707-1748

  McCabe, P M ^a,b   Leach, J A ^a   Needham, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; ISOTHERMS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS;

ISOTHERMAL CHEMICAL AUTOCATALYSIS; SINGULAR REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; TRAVELLING WAVES;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 0033651724     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139998344775     Document Type: Article

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