The development of travelling waves in a simple isothermal chemical system with general orders of autocatalysis and decay

DOI10.1098/rsta.1991.0122zbMath0749.92025MaRDI QIDQ4007273

David John Needham, John H. Merkin

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1991.0122

zbMATH Keywords

travelling waves; autocatalysis; epidemiology; spread of infectious disease; isothermal chemical system; overall picture of wave-formation; threshold-criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

92E20: Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

80A30: Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer

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