Fluctuation-regularized front propagation dynamics in reaction-diffusion systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Cohen, Elisheva ^a   Kessler, David A ^a   Levine, Herbert ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK PARTICLE DENSITY; CHEMICAL REACTION DYNAMICS; FRONT PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REACTION KINETICS;

DIFFUSION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; DIFFUSION; EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIFFUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 18244390244     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.158302     Document Type: Article

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