Bifurcation from stability to instability for a free boundary problem modeling tumor growth by Stokes equation

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 643-664

  Friedman, Avner ^a   Hu, Bei ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Free boundary problems; Instability; Stability; Stationary solution; Symmetry breaking; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750862607     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.04.034     Document Type: Article

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