Travelling-wave solutions to monostable reaction-diffusion systems of mixed monotone type

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1984, 1999, Pages 1561-1598

  Takase, H ^a   Sleeman, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Comparison theorems; Reaction diffusion; Stability; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141936308     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0372     Document Type: Article

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