A global bifurcation and the appearance of a one-dimensional spiral wave in excitable media

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 348-370

  Cytrynbaum, Eric N ^a   Lewis, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin of attraction; Reflections; Shooting method; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

BASIN OF ATTRACTION; BASINS OF ATTRACTIONS; BIFURCATION POINTS; EXCITABLE MEDIAS; GLOBAL BIFURCATIONS; HETEROCLINIC CONNECTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PERIODIC SOLUTIONS; SADDLE-NODE BIFURCATIONS; SHOOTING METHOD; SPIRAL WAVES; STABLE MANIFOLDS; STABLE SOLUTIONS; TRAVELING PULSE; TRAVELING WAVE;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; FARM BUILDINGS; WAVES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 63049115883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080722254     Document Type: Article

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