Spontaneous formation of multiarmed spiral waves in various simple models of weakly excitable media

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4087-4094

  Zaritski, Roman M ^a   Ju, Jinhyo ^a   Ashkenazi, Irina ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation analysis; Excitable media; FitzHugh Nagumo; Spiral waves

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SELF ORGANIZING STORAGE;

EXCITABLE MEDIA; FITZHUGH-NAGUMO; MULTIARMED SPIRAL WAVES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33644668336     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127405014532     Document Type: Article

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