The existence and stability of spike patterns in a chemotaxis model

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 790-817

  Sleeman, B D ^a   Ward, Michael J ^b   Wei, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Metastability; Nonlocal eigenvalue problems; Spike patterns; Stability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHEMOTAXIS MODELS; METASTABILITY; NONLOCAL EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; SPIKE PATTERNS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 21244456108     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139902415117     Document Type: Article

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