The Large Core Limit of Spiral Waves in Excitable Media: A Numerical Approach

DOI10.1137/090780055MaRDI QIDQ3577820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastian Hermann, Georg A. Gottwald

Publication date 26 July 2010

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5830

zbMATH Keywords

Barkley modeldrift bifurcationequivarianceexcitable mediafreezing methodpattern formationrotating spiral wavessemi-implicit Crank-Nicholson schemespiral coreunbounded domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65M99)

Abstract: We modify the freezing method introduced by Beyn & Thuemmler, 2004, for analyzing rigidly rotating spiral waves in excitable media. The proposed method is designed to stably determine the rotation frequency and the core radius of rotating spirals, as well as the approximate shape of spiral waves in unbounded domains. In particular, we introduce spiral wave boundary conditions based on geometric approximations of spiral wave solutions by Archimedean spirals and by involutes of circles. We further propose a simple implementation of boundary conditions for the case when the inhibitor is non-diffusive, a case which had previously caused spurious oscillations. We then utilize the method to numerically analyze the large core limit. The proposed method allows us to investigate the case close to criticality where spiral waves acquire infinite core radius and zero rotation frequency, before they begin to develop into retracting fingers. We confirm the linear scaling regime of a drift bifurcation for the rotation frequency and the core radius of spiral wave solutions close to criticality. This regime is unattainable with conventional numerical methods.

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