Buckling of scroll waves.
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چکیده
A scroll wave in a sufficiently thin layer of an excitable medium with negative filament tension can be stable nevertheless due to filament rigidity. Above a certain critical thickness of the medium, such a scroll wave will have a tendency to deform into a buckled, precessing state. Experimentally this will be seen as meandering of the spiral wave on the surface, the amplitude of which grows with the thickness of the layer, until a breakup to scroll wave turbulence happens. We present a simplified theory for this phenomenon and illustrate it with numerical examples.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 109 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012