A geometrical approach to wave-type solutions of excitable reaction-diffusion systems

DOI10.1098/rspa.1991.0040zbMath0718.92003OpenAlexW2071452007MaRDI QIDQ5750747

Peter Grindrod, James D. Murray, Mark A. Lewis

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1991.0040

zbMATH Keywords

travelling wavesNeumann boundary conditionsbiomedical systemsreduction of dimensionalitynon-convex domainsgeometrical stabilityexcitable reaction-diffusion systemswave-front stabilityeikonal equation approximationgeometrically stable stationary wave boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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