Reflected waves in an inhomogeneous excitable medium

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1107-1128

  Ermentrout, G Bard ^a   Rinzel, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable equations; Echo waves; Excitable media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC CABLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

CABLE EQUATIONS; ECHO WAVES; EXCITABLE MEDIA; GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; PROPAGATION BLOCK; REFLECTED WAVE; SADDLE TYPE THRESHOLD BEHAVIOR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 0030216813     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139994276793     Document Type: Article

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