Waves in excitable media: Effects of wave geometry

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1939-1951

  Wellner, Marcel ^a,b   Jalife, José ^a   Pertsov, Arkady M ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eikonal relation; Excitable media; Nonlinear waves; Speed curvature effect

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION (WAVES); WAVE PROPAGATION;

EXCITABLE MEDIA; NONLINEAR WAVES;

WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0036755524     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127402005613     Document Type: Article

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