Complex traveling wave solutions to the Fisher equation

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 366, Issue , 2006, Pages 115-123

  Feng, Zhaosheng ^a   Li, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous system; First integral; Fisher equation; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; FIRST INTEGRAL; FISHER EQUATION; TRAVELING WAVES;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 33646175046     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.10.058     Document Type: Article

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