On spiral waves arising in natural systems

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 610-622

  Bini, D ^a,b   Cherubini, C ^b,c   Filippi, S ^b,c   Gizzi, A ^c,d   Ricci, P E ^e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ICRANET   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d Alberto Sordi Foundation   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Crystal growth; Heat transfer; Reaction diffusion equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952711644     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.240909.170210a     Document Type: Article

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