Persistence of wavefronts in delayed nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 219-261

  Ou, Chunhua ^a   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bio reactor; Delay; Delayed induced nonlocality; Hybrid system; Hyperbolic parabolic equations; Monostable and bistable; Nonmonotone nonlinearity; Persistence; Population dynamics; Reaction diffusion equations; Traveling wavefronts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846855556     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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