SPIRAL BREAKUP IN A MODIFIED FITZHUGH-NAGUMO MODEL

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作者
PANFILOV, A
HOGEWEG, P
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[1] Bioinformatica, University of Utrecht, 3584 CH Utrecht
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10.1016/0375-9601(93)90921-L
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In a modified FitzHugh-Nagumo model for excitable tissue a spiral wave is found to break up into an irregular spatial pattern. The main difference between our equations and the standard FitzHugh-Nagumo model is that we use two different time constants: one for the relative refractory period and another for the absolute refractory period. Breakup occurs when the relative refractory period is short. The effect is numerically stable at least for a five-fold decrease in the space integration step.
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