Exact solitary wavelike solutions in a nonlinear microtubule RLC transmission line

Fabien Ii Ndzana1, Alidou Mohamadou1

  • 1International Center for Complex Systems, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|February 3, 2019
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