Rings on strings in excitable media

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAA1BAMaRDI QIDQ4606178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabian Maucher, Paul Sutcliffe

Publication date 1 March 2018

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04693, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/23887/1/23887.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

excitable mediaFitzHugh-Nagumo modelspiral wave vorticesthreaded vortex rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Biophysics (92C05)

Abstract: We study the dynamics and interaction of coaxial vortex rings in the FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium. We find that threading vortex rings with a vortex string results in significant qualitative differences in their evolution and interaction. In particular, threading prevents the annihilation of rings in a head-on collision, allows generic ring overtaking, and can even reverse the direction of motion of a ring. We identify that an important mechanism for producing this new behaviour is that threaded vortex rings interact indirectly via induced twisting of the threading vortex string.

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