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This paper presents an extension of the unfolding operator technique, initially applied to two-dimensional domains, to the realm of three-dimensional thin domains. The advancement of this methodology is pivotal, as it enhances our…
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We analyze oscillatory instabilities for a coupled PDE-ODE system modeling the communication between localized spatially segregated dynamically active signaling compartments that are coupled through a passive extracellular bulk diffusion…
The photon diffusion equation is solved making use of the Born series for the Robin boundary condition. We develop a general theory for arbitrary domains with smooth enough boundaries and explore the convergence. The proposed Born series is…