Travelling front solutions arising in the chemotaxis-growth model

Interfaces and Free Boundaries

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-245

  Funaki, Mitsuo ^a   Mimura, Masayasu ^b   Tsujikawa, Tohru ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Interfacial stability; Singular perturbation; Travelling front

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747156206     PISSN: 14639963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/IFB/141     Document Type: Article

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