Speed of traveling fronts in a sigmoidal reaction-diffusion system.
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چکیده
We study a sigmoidal version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system based on an analytic description using piecewise linear approximations of the reaction kinetics. We completely describe the dynamics of wave fronts and discuss the properties of the speed equation. The speed diagrams show front bifurcations between branches with one, three, or five fronts that differ significantly from the classical FitzHugh-Nagumo model. We examine how the number of fronts and their speed vary with the model parameters. We also investigate numerically the stability of the front solutions in a case when five fronts exist.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Chaos
دوره 21 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011