Reflected Waves in an Inhomogeneous Excitable Medium

DOI10.1137/S0036139994276793zbMath0858.92009OpenAlexW2057351240MaRDI QIDQ4891756

G. Bard Ermentrout, John Rinzel

Publication date: 23 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036139994276793

zbMATH Keywords

spiral wavereflected wavesunstable periodic orbitreflected-transmitted wavespropagating action potentialexcitable cablesaddle-type threshold behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Neural biology (92C20) Biophysics (92C05)

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