Rigorous asymptotic expansions for critical wave speeds in a family of scalar reaction-diffusion equations

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-139

  Popović, Nikola ^a   Kaper, Tasso J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blow up technique; Critical wave speeds; FKPP equation; Geometric desingularization; Reaction diffusion equations; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646410420     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10884-005-9002-1     Document Type: Article

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