A comparison of two numerical methods for oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1-5

  Sherratt, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crank Nicolson method; Gear's method; Periodic waves; Reaction diffusion equations; Scientific computing; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039384086     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(97)00001-3     Document Type: Article

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