SCALING REGIME OF SPIRAL WAVE-PROPAGATION IN SINGLE-DIFFUSIVE MEDIA

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KARMA, A
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[1] Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.397
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report uniformly scaling rotor solutions of the free-boundary problem of wave propagation in reaction-diffusion models of single-diffusive excitable-oscillatory media with a unique wavelength and rotation frequency obeying the Fife scaling lambda approximately epsilon--2/3 and omega approximately epsilon-1/3. In simulation of the models, the small-epsilon rotation regime appears to always be non-steady-state but, remarkably, it remains partially describable in terms of these solutions.
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