Scaling limit of a discrete prion dynamics model

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 839-865

  Doumic, Marie ^a   Goudon, Thierry ^b,c   Lepoutre, Thomas ^d,e,f  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INRIA Research Centre Paris Rocquencourt   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation fragmentation equations; Asymptotic analysis; Polymerization process

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953934427     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2009.v7.n4.a3     Document Type: Article

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