Traveling waves in a simplified model of calcium dynamics

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1149-1199

  Tsai, Je Chiang ^a   Zhang, Wenjun ^b   Kirk, Vivien ^b   Sneyd, James ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calcium dynamics; FitzHugh Nagumo; Reaction diffusion system; Stability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM DYNAMICS; CLOSED CELLS; EVANS FUNCTION; EXCITABLE SYSTEMS; FITZHUGH-NAGUMO; FITZHUGH-NAGUMO EQUATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; OPEN-CELL; PERIODIC WAVE SOLUTIONS; PERIODIC WAVES; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; SINGULAR LIMITS; TRAVELING FRONT; TRAVELING FRONTS AND PULSE; TRAVELING PULSE; TRAVELING WAVE; TWO-REGIME; WAVE SOLUTION; WAVE SPEED;

CELLS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; HOPF BIFURCATION; SPEED;

CALCIUM;

EID: 84871368436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120867949     Document Type: Article

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