Understanding Propagation Failure as a Slow Capture Near a Limit Point

DOI10.1137/S0036139994264944zbMath0835.34051MaRDI QIDQ4858799

Thomas Erneux, Victoria Booth

Publication date: 19 March 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036139994264944

zbMATH Keywords

propagation failure; FitzHugh-Nagumo equations; traveling pulse; spatially discrete reaction-diffusion systems with excitable kinetics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92E20: Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry

92C30: Physiology (general)

37G15: Bifurcations of limit cycles and periodic orbits in dynamical systems

34C40: Ordinary differential equations and systems on manifolds

34E15: Singular perturbations for ordinary differential equations

34K99: Functional-differential equations (including equations with delayed, advanced or state-dependent argument)

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