Anisotropy, propagation failure, and wave speedup in traveling waves of discretizaions of a Nagumo PDE

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 562-582

  Elmer, Christopher E ^a   Van Vleck, Erik S ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistable partial differential equation; Spatial and temporal dicretization; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

BISTABLE NONLINEARITY; BISTABLE PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; BISTABLES; PARABOLIC PDES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DICRETIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTION; TRAVELLING WAVES; WAVESPEED;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

EID: 0037335295     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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