Dynamics of linked filaments in excitable media

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AAFBB3MaRDI QIDQ4623154zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabian Maucher, Paul Sutcliffe

Publication date 19 February 2019

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07064, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/27525/1/27525.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

excitable mediaFitzHugh-Nagumo equationlinksvortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

Abstract: In this paper we present the results of parallel numerical computations of the long-term dynamics of linked vortex filaments in a three-dimensional FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium. In particular, we study all torus links with no more than 12 crossings and identify a timescale over which the dynamics is regular in the sense that each link is well-described by a spinning rigid conformation of fixed size that propagates at constant speed along the axis of rotation. We compute the properties of these links and demonstrate that they have a simple dependence on the crossing number of the link for a fixed number of link components. Furthermore, we find that instabilities that exist over longer timescales in the bulk can be removed by boundary interactions that yield stable torus links which settle snugly at the medium boundary. The Borromean rings are used as an example of a non-torus link to demonstrate both the irregular tumbling dynamics that arises in the bulk and its suppression by a tight confining medium. Finally, we investigate the collision of torus links and reveal that this produces a complicated wrestling motion where one torus link can eventually dominate over the other by pushing it into the boundary of the medium.

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