Stability of spatially periodic pulse patterns in a class of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1219-1301

  Van Ploeg, Harmen Der ^a   Doelman, Arjen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evans functions; Reaction diffusion equations; Singular perturbations; Spatially periodic solutions; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444478770     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2005.54.2792     Document Type: Article

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