Existence and stability of multiple-spot solutions for the Gray-Scott model in R2

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 147-180

  Wei, Juncheng ^a   Winter, Matthias ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion systems; Self replication; Spotty solutions

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MULTIPLE-SPOT SOLUTIONS;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 0037367343     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00743-1     Document Type: Article

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