A free boundary problem arising in a model of wound healing

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 778-800

  Chen, Xinfu ^a   Friedman, Avner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Free boundary; Reaction diffusion equations; Travelling wave solutions; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034353709     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141099351693     Document Type: Article

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