Well-posedness and convergence to the steady state for a model of morphogen transport

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1725-1749

  Krzyzanowski, Piotr ^a   Laurençot, Philippe ^b   Wrzosek, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Degenerate parabolic system; Liapunov functional; Steady state

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE PARABOLIC SYSTEM; LIAPUNOV FUNCTIONAL; LIAPUNOV FUNCTIONALS; MORPHOGENS; NONLINEAR TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUASI-LINEAR; STEADY STATE; TRANSCYTOSIS; WELLPOSEDNESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 70349883614     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070711608     Document Type: Article

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