An asymptotic solution for traveling waves of a nonlinear-diffusion Fisher's equation

DOI10.1007/BF00160171zbMath0811.92002MaRDI QIDQ1343363

Thomas P. Witelski

Publication date: 1994

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionspopulation dispersaltraveling-wave solutionsdensity-dependent diffusion coefficientgeneralized nonlinear-diffusion Fisher equationpolymer diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65M99) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65N99)

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