Systems of coupled diffusion equations with degenerate nonlinear source terms: Linear stability and traveling waves

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 561-569

  Wylie, Jonathan J ^a   Huang, Huaxiong ^b   Miura, Robert M ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Diffusion equations with degenerate nonlinear sources; Linear stability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949107742     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2009.23.561     Document Type: Article

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