Turning points and traveling waves in FitzHugh-Nagumo type equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 381-410

  Liu, Weishi ^a   Van Vleck, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange lemma; Traveling wave; Turning point

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646342480     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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