Time-discretization of a degenerate reaction-diffusion equation arising in biofilm modeling

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue , 2006, Pages 15-37

  Duvnjak, Antonija ^a   Eberl, Hermann J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofilm model; Degenerate parabolic equations; Nonlinear diffusion; Numerical solution

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIOFILM MODELS; DEGENERATE PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33846202871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10689613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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