Numerical analysis of a model for the spread of HIV/AIDS

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 864-882

  Iannelli, Mimmo ^a   Loro, Roberto ^a   Milner, Fabio A ^b   Pugliese, Andrea ^a   Rabbiolo, Guglielmo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; AIDS modeling; Numerical method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342920349     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0733043     Document Type: Article

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