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Hierarchy of the presented models. Solid arrows show inheritance, and dashed arrows show unknown inheritance

Hierarchy of the presented models. Solid arrows show inheritance, and dashed arrows show unknown inheritance

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Based on an established model for liver infections, we open the discussion on the used reaction terms in the reaction‐diffusion system. The mechanisms behind the chronification of liver infections are widely unknown, therefore we discuss a variety of reaction functions. By using theorems about existence, uniqueness, and nonnegativity, we identify p...

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... The used parameters and the shape and size of the domain Ω control towards which stationary state the solution is tending. See [8,11,13,14] for further details on the analytical results. ...
... Theorem 16 gives in Eq. (15) an estimate for the L 2 (Ω)-norm of v. By using ξ(t) as solution of Eq. (13) and directly Eq. (14) we get the approximation ...
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