Discontinuity waves as tipping points: Applications to biological & sociological systems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1911-1934

  Bissell, John ^a   Straughan, Brian ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowd dynamics; Discontinuity waves; Hantavirus; Hyperbolic reaction diffusion equations; Shocks; SIS epidemic model; Tipping point; Traffic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929454558     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.1911     Document Type: Article

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