Excitability in a model with a saddle-node homoclinic bifurcation

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 419-434

  Dilão, Rui ^a   Volford, András ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chemical turbulence; Excitability; Reaction diffusion equations; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

EID: 1042279421     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2004.4.419     Document Type: Article

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