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

DOI10.1098/rsta.1991.0122zbMath0749.92025OpenAlexW2070989864MaRDI 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 wavesautocatalysisepidemiologyspread of infectious diseaseisothermal chemical systemoverall picture of wave-formationthreshold-criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30)

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