Convergence of a finite volume scheme for nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems modelling an epidemic disease

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 823-853

  Bendahmane, Mostafa ^a   Sepúlveda, Mauricio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Finite volume scheme; Nonlocal SIR model; Reaction diffusion system; Weak solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149089882     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2009.11.823     Document Type: Article

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