Global existence for a parabolic-hyperbolic free boundary problem modelling tumor growth

Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 597-614

  Cui, Shang Bin ^a   Wei, Xue Mei ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Existence; Free boundary problem; Global solution; Tumor growth; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844600157     PISSN: 01689673     EISSN: 16183932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10255-005-0268-1     Document Type: Article

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