Branch Processes of Vortex Filaments and Hopf Invariant Constraint on Scroll Wave

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/52/6/31MaRDI QIDQ3552081zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tao Zhu, Ji-Rong Ren, Shu-Fan Mo

Publication date 13 April 2010

Published in Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3787

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf invariantscroll wavetopology of knotvortex filament

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and monotonicity methods applied to PDEs (35A16) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: In this paper, by making use of Duan's topological current theory, the evolution of the vortex filaments in excitable media is discussed in detail. The vortex filaments are found generating or annihilating at the limit points and encountering, splitting, or merging at the bifurcation points of a complex function $Z(vecx,t)$. It is also shown that the Hopf invariant of knotted scroll wave filaments is preserved in the branch processes (splitting, merging, or encountering) during the evolution of these knotted scroll wave filaments. Furthermore, it also revealed that the "exclusion principle" in some chemical media is just the special case of the Hopf invariant constraint, and during the branch processes the "exclusion principle" is also protected by topology.

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