The fermat principle and chemical waves

Variational and Extremum Principles in Macroscopic Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 355-373

  Farkas, Henrik ^a   Kály Kullai, Kristóf ^a   Sieniutycz, Stanislaw ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044488-8/50020-5     Document Type: Chapter

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