Classical Solutions for a Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation Arising in Computational Neuroscience

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 385-409

  Carrillo, José A ^a   González, María D M ^b   Gualdani, Maria P ^c   Schonbek, Maria E ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blow up; Classical solutions; Integrate and fire neurons model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873190312     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605302.2012.747536     Document Type: Article

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