Wave-Block in Excitable Media Due to Regions of Depressed Excitability

DOI10.1137/S0036139998349298zbMath0967.35067OpenAlexW1985314283MaRDI QIDQ4507291

Publication date: 18 October 2000

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036139998349298

zbMATH Keywords

saddle-node bifurcation comparison principle propagation failure phase-plane methods inhomogeneous excitable media gap model gap region blocking stationary solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Physiology (general) (92C30) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15)

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