A note on the non-existence of permanent form travelling wave solutions in a class of singular reaction-diffusion problems

Dynamical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-135

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; INTEGRATION; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

FISHER PROBLEM; LIPSCHITZ CONTINUOUS; PERMANENT FORM TRAVELLING WAVE; REACTION DIFFUSION PROBLEM;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036625977     PISSN: 14689367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14689360110116498     Document Type: Article

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