Critical wave speeds for a family of scalar reaction-diffusion equations

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-73

  Witelski, T P ^a   Ono, K ^b   Kaper, T J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi stable potentials; Reaction diffusion; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041365491     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(00)00114-2     Document Type: Article

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