Modeling group dynamics of phototaxis: From particle systems to pdes

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-128

  Doron, Levy ^a   Requeijo, Tiago ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Group dynamics; Phototaxis; Stochastic particle systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350691840     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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