A stochastic model for wound healing

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 909-924

  Callaghan, Thomas ^a   Khain, Evgeniy ^b   Sander, Leonard M ^b   Ziff, Robert M ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher Kolmogorov equation; Front propagation; Stochastic modeling; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645658927     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-006-9022-1     Document Type: Article

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