Fisher waves in an epidemic model

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1117-1128

  Zhao, Xiao Qiang ^a   Wang, Wendi ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemic model; Monotone iterations; Traveling waves; Upper and lower solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944231539     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2004.4.1117     Document Type: Article

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