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Title Bifurcation analysis of periodic traveling wave solutions to an excitable RD system

Name Toshiyuki Ogawa
Country Japan
Email togw@meiji.ac.jp
Co-Author(s) M Osman Gani
Submit Time 2014-02-28 04:16:00
Session
Special Session 8: Emergence and dynamics of patterns in nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical science
Contents
We introduce an excitable RD system to imitate cardiac cell activities and observe the stabilities of periodic traveling wave solutions. There are two families of wave trains, fast and slow. The fast family is basically stable in the case of FitzHugh-Nagumo system which is one of the typical excitable systems. However, we can observe that the fast wave train becomes unstable in our model and as a result bifurcates to an oscillatory wave. We shall explain this phenomena by calculating the essential spectrum numerically.