Self-propelled nonlinearly diffusing particles: Aggregation and continuum description

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  López, Cristóbal ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

CONTINUUM DENSITY EQUATION; DIFFUSING PARTICLES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 33244477832     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061109     Document Type: Article

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