ANALYSIS OF A CLASS OF DEGENERATE REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS AND THE BIDOMAIN MODEL OF CARDIAC TISSUE

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-218

  Bendahmane, Mostafa ^a   Karlsen, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

bidomain model; cardiac electric field; degenerate; existence; Reaction diffusion system; uniqueness; weak solution

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DYNAMIC MODELS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

BIDOMAIN MODELS; CARDIAC ELECTRIC FIELD; CARDIAC TISSUES; DEGENERATE; DEGENERATE REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEM; EXISTENCE; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; UNIQUENESS; WEAK SOLUTION; WELLPOSEDNESS;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 67349085336     PISSN: 15561801     EISSN: 1556181X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/nhm.2006.1.185     Document Type: Article

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