Travelling waves in a nonlinear degenerate diffusion model for bacterial pattern formation

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 339-362

  Satnoianu, R A ^a   Maini, P K ^a,b,c   Garduno, F S ^a,b,c   Armitage, J P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial chemotaxis; Degenerate diffusion; Nonlinear coupled parabolic equations; Phase plane analysis; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038793264     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2001.1.339     Document Type: Article

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