We consider pulse and front solutions to a spatially discrete FitzHugh–Nagumo equation that contains terms to represent both depolarization and hyperpolarization of the nerve axon. We demonstrate a technique for deriving candidate solutions for the McKean nonlinearity and present and apply solvability conditions necessary for existence. Our equation contains both spatially continuous and discre...

We prove the validity of an averaging principle for a class of systems of slow-fast reactiondiffusion equations with the reaction terms in both equations having polynomial growth, perturbed by a noise of multiplicative type. The models we have in mind are the stochastic Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation arising in neurophysiology and the Ginzburg-Landau equation arising in statistical mechanics.

Direct algebraic method of obtaining exact solutions to nonlinear PDE’s is applied to certain set of nonlinear nonlocal evolutionary equations, including nonlinear telegraph equation, hyperbolic generalization of Burgers equation and some spatially nonlocal hydrodynamic-type model. Special attention is paid to the construction of the kink-like and soliton-like solutions.

Abstract: In this study, we present a numerical scheme to solve the telegraph equation by using Fibonacci polynomials. This method is based on the Fibonacci collocation method which transforms the equation into a matrix equation, and the unknown of this equation is a Fibonacci coefficients matrix. Some numerical examples with comparisons are included to demonstrate the validity and applicabilit...

In this paper, first a new homotopy perturbation method for solving a fractional order nonlinear telegraph equation is introduced. By applying the proposed method, the nonlinear equation is translated to linear equations for per iteration of homotopy perturbation method. Then, the obtained problems are solved with separation method. In the examples, it is illustrated that the exact solution is ...

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 fro...

We investigate smooth and sparse optimal control problems for convective FitzHughNagumo equation with travelling wave solutions in moving excitable media. The cost function includes distributed space-time and terminal observations or targets. The state and adjoint equations are discretized in space by symmetric interior point Galerkin (SIPG) method and by backward Euler method in time. Several ...