Asymptotic speed of spread and traveling waves for a nonlocal epidemic model

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1043-1056

  Xu, Dashun ^a   Zhao, Xiao Qiang ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonlocal epidemic model; Spreading speed; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444495448     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2005.5.1043     Document Type: Article

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