Monotone wave-fronts in a structured population model with distributed maturation delay

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 858-879

  Al Omari, J F M ^a   Gourley, S A ^b  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay; Reaction diffusion; Stage structure; Travelling front

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLES AND ZEROS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

REACTION DIFFUSION MODEL; STAGE STRUCTURE; TRAVELLING FRONT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 29544450630     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxh073     Document Type: Article

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