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Bounds for the solution of a non-linear parabolic initial-boundary value problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. R. Carter
Affiliation:
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Extract

A number of papers have appeared over the past decade or so which study questions of the existence and stability of positive steady-state solutions for parabolic initial-boundary value problems of the general form

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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