Spiral wave behaviors in an excitable reaction-diffusion system on a sphere (Q1809418)

The dynamics of chemical spiral waves in an excitable reaction diffusion system on a sphere is numerically investigated employing a system of equation of the form \[ u_t=D_u \Delta u+f(u,v), \quad v_t=D_v \Delta v+g(u,v), \] where \(D_u\) and \(D_v\) are diffusion coefficients of the propagator variable \(u\) and the recovery variable \(v\); \(f(u,v)\), \(g(u,v)\) denote the nonlinear terms. The numerical solutions are obtained by spectral methods using spherical harmonics as basis functions.