Existence and nonexistence of curved front solution of a biological equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 237-279

  Chapuisat, Guillemette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Biology; Curved travelling front; Energy methods; Phase portrait; Reaction diffusion; Travelling referential

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947583469     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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