On the structure of steady solutions for the kinematic model of spiral waves in excitable media

Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 317-330

  Ikota, Ryo ^a   Ishimura, Naoyuki ^b   Yamaguchi, Tomohiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATL INST OF MAT AND CHEM RES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Excitable media; Kinematic model; Spiral waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039070938     PISSN: 09167005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03167407     Document Type: Article

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