Traveling wave solutions of a mathematical model for tumor encapsulation

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 392-407

  Sherratt, Jonathan A ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCAPSULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES;

CANCER; TRAVELING WAVES;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 0034564461     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139998345355     Document Type: Article

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