Existence of monotone traveling fronts for BDF discretizations of bistable reaction-diffussion equations

Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series A: Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 389-402

  Elmer, Christopher E ^a   Van Vleck, Erik S ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward differentiation formulas; Piltable partial differential equation; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644360264     PISSN: 12013390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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