On propagation failure in one- and two-dimensional excitable media

DOI10.1063/1.1772552MaRDI QIDQ5705443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Georg A. Gottwald, Lorenz Kramer

Publication date 8 November 2005

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0408026

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

Abstract: We present a non-perturbative technique to study pulse dynamics in excitable media. The method is used to study propagation failure in one-dimensional and two-dimensional excitable media. In one-dimensional media we describe the behaviour of pulses and wave trains near the saddle node bifurcation, where propagation fails. The generalization of our method to two dimensions captures the point where a broken front (or finger) starts to retract. We obtain approximate expressions for the pulse shape, pulse velocity and scaling behavior. The results are compared with numerical simulations and show good agreement.

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