Theory of the spiral core in excitable media

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(94)90060-4zbMath0807.35063MaRDI QIDQ1339278

David A. Kessler, William N. Reynolds, Herbert Levine

Publication date: 4 January 1995

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/31889

zbMATH Keywords

excitable reaction diffusion system; stability of the spiral structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

35B30: Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs

92C15: Developmental biology, pattern formation

65M99: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems

65N99: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems

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Uses Software

• HSL
• EISPACK

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