Hair-triggered instability of radial steady states, spread and extinction in semilinear heat equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 235-251

  Shi, Junping ^a,b   Wang, Xuefeng ^c  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocatalytic chemical reaction; Instability; Semilinear heat equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748795043     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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