On the bifurcation curve for an elliptic system of FitzHugh-Nagumo type

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 177, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 1-22

  Sweers, Guido ^a   Troy, William C ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation curve; Elliptic system; FitzHugh Nagumo type

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0037445338     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00774-1     Document Type: Article

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