Stability of generalized transition fronts

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 521-552

  Mellet, Antoine ^a   Nolen, James ^b   Roquejoffre, Jean Michel ^c   Ryzhik, Lenya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized fronts; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049104527     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300902768677     Document Type: Article

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