Computing stability of multidimensional traveling waves

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 480-507

  Ledoux, Veerle ^a   Malham, Simon J A ^b   Niesen, Jitse ^c   Thümmler, Vera ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evans function; Multidimensional stability; Parabolic systems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RICCATI EQUATIONS;

EIGEN VALUES; EVANS FUNCTION; FAR FIELDS; FOURIER BASIS; FOURIER COEFFICIENTS; GRASSMANNIAN; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; LINEAR STABILITIES; MATCHING CONDITIONS; MODEL APPLICATIONS; MODEL SYSTEMS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONALIZATION; PARABOLIC SYSTEMS; PROJECTION METHODS; SPECTRAL PROBLEMS; TRAVELING FRONTS; TRAVELING WAVES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; UNSTABLE SOLUTIONS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 63049117549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080724009     Document Type: Article

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