Dynamics of Metastable Localized Patterns and Its Application to the Interaction of Spike Solutions for the Gierer-Meinhardt Systems in Two Spatial Dimensions

Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 181-226

  Ei, Shin Ichiro ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gierer Meinhardt model; Interaction of spike solutions; Reaction diffusion systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242716046     PISSN: 09167005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03167453     Document Type: Article

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