The existence and stability of asymmetric spike patterns for the Schnakenberg model

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 229-264

  Ward, Michael J ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ASYMMETRIC EQUILIBRIUM; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; LARGE AMPLITUDE; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; SCHNAKENBERG MODELS; SINGULARLY PERTURBED; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SPIKE PATTERNS; TWO-COMPONENT;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 0036809985     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00223     Document Type: Article

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