Adaptation of autocatalytic fluctuations to diffusive noise

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2 I, 2001, Pages 0211031-0211036

  Shnerb, N M ^a   Bettelheim, E ^b   Louzoun, Y ^b   Agam, O ^b   Solomon, S ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AUTOCATALYTIC FLUCTUATIONS;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 4243971213     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.021103     Document Type: Article

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