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Resonance attractors of spiral waves in excitable media under global feedback
Vladimir S Zykov1, Harald Engel
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
The dynamics of spiral waves on a circular domain is studied by numerical integration of an excitable reaction-diffusion system with a global feedback. A theory based on the Fourier expansion of the feedback signal is developed to explain the existence and the stability of resonance attractors of spiral waves on domains of different sizes. The theoretical analysis predicts the existence of a discrete set of stable attractors with radii depending on the time delay in the feedback loop. These predictions are in good quantitative agreement with performed numerical simulations.