Spreading speed revisited: Analysis of a free boundary model

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 583-603

  Bunting, Gary ^a   Du, Yihong ^a   Krakowski, Krzysztof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diusive logistic equation; Free boundary; Invasive population; Spreading speed; Spreading vanishing di chotomy

Indexed keywords

FREE BOUNDARY; INVASIVE POPULATION; LOGISTIC EQUATIONS; SPREADING SPEED; SPREADING-VANISHING DI-CHOTOMY;

ECOLOGY;

SPEED;

EID: 84877342682     PISSN: 15561801     EISSN: 1556181X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.583     Document Type: Article

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