Search for a small egg by spermatozoa in restricted geometries

DOI10.1007/S00285-015-0955-3MaRDI QIDQ304045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic estimatesnumerical simulationsrandom search processspermatozoa

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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