This volume contains a wealth of results and methodologies applicable to a wide range of problems arising in reaction-diffusion theory. It can be viewed both as a handbook, and as a detailed description of the methodology. The authors present new methods based on matched asymptotic expansions.

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1) Fisher Nonlinearity: Initial Data with Exponential Decay Rates or Compact Support.- 4 mth-Order (m > 1) Fisher Nonlinearity: Initial Data with Algebraic Decay Rates.- 5 Extension to Systems of Fisher-Kolmogorov Equations. Example: A Simple Model for an Ionic Autocatalytic System.- 6 Introduction.- 7 Permanent Form Travelling Waves (PTWs).- 8 The Initial-Boundary Value Problem.- 9 Asymptotic Solution of IBVP as t ? 0 for 0 ? x < ?: Initial Data with Exponential or Algebraic Decay Rates ?.- 10 Extension to the System of Singular Reaction-Diffusion Equations 221.- C Analysis of Boundary Value Problem (8.76)-(8.78).- D Analysis of Boundary Value Problem (8.90)-(8.92).- References.