Asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a multidimensional moving boundary problem modeling tumor growth

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 636-655

  Cui, Shangbin ^a   Escher, Joachim ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centre manifold; Moving boundary problem; Stability; Surface tension; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849134265     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300701743848     Document Type: Article

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