Existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions for a bistable reaction-diffusion equation in an infinite cylinder whose diameter is suddenly increased

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1805-1816

  Chapuisat, Guillemette ^a   Grenier, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Cylinder; Green's function; Reaction diffusion equation; Super solutions; Symetrical extension; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144447608     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300500300006     Document Type: Article

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