From trigger to phase waves and back again

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2006.01.005zbMath1094.35061MaRDI QIDQ2489662

Harald Engel, Grigori Bordiougov

Publication date: 28 April 2006

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2006.01.005

zbMATH Keywords

stability; linear stability analysis; reaction-diffusion equations; active media; Oregonator model; phase waves; excitation pulses; Shilnikov homoclinics; trigger waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

37N25: Dynamical systems in biology

92C15: Developmental biology, pattern formation

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

37L99: Infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems

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Uses Software

• AUTO2000
• HomCont

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