Nonstandard discretizations of the generalized Nagumo reaction-diffusion equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 363-379

  Chen, Z ^a   Gumel, A B ^a   Mickens, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Nagumo model; Nonstandard finite difference schemes; Positivity; Truncation errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037406570     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10048     Document Type: Article

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