Ostwald ripening in Dryland vegetation

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 261-273

  Kletter, Assaf Y ^a   Von Hardenberg, Jost ^b   Meron, Ehud ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activator inhibitor systems; Pattern formation; Phase coarsening; Scale free patterns; Vegetation patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255162127     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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