Spiral wave behaviors in an excitable reaction-diffusion system on a sphere

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 124, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 126-136

  Yagisita, Hiroki ^a   Mimura, Masayasu ^a   Yamada, Michio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excitable media; Geodesic curvature; Rotating spiral wave; Spectral method; Sphere; Wave front dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001460027     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00182-1     Document Type: Article

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