Search for a small egg by spermatozoa in restricted geometries

DOI10.1007/S00285-015-0955-3zbMATH Open1348.92041OpenAlexW2273601133WikidataQ37083985 ScholiaQ37083985MaRDI QIDQ304045FDOQ304045

Authors: J. Yang, I. Kupka, Zeev Schuss, D. Holcman 

Publication date: 23 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-015-0955-3

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic estimatesnumerical simulationsrandom search processspermatozoa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physiology (general) (92C30) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Computational methods for stochastic equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H35)

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• Stochastic simulation algorithms for solving narrow escape diffusion problems by introducing a drift to the target
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