Upper-lower solutions for nonlinear parabolic systems and their applications

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 620-633

  Abudiab, Mufid ^a   Ahn, Inkyung ^b   Li, Lige ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limit; HIV infection; Immune cells; Non quasi monotonicity; Nonlinear boundary conditions; Nonlinear parabolic systems; Positive solutions; Stem cells; Upper lower solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951941535     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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