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Roman M Zaritski1, Sergey F Mironov, Arkady M Pertsov
1Department of Computer Science, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA. zaritski@roman.montclair.edu
Abstract:
We study the asymptotic behavior of scroll wave turbulence in large three-dimensional excitable media modeled by FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. The focus is on the type of turbulence caused by negative tension of scroll wave filaments, which is considered to be one of the mechanisms of cardiac fibrillation. We discovered that the initial increase in turbulence complexity can be followed by intermittent self-organization, when complex filament tangles are replaced by a small number of relatively stable triple filament strands. The intermittency is the result of a competition between the destabilizing effect of negative tension and mutual attraction of filaments with similar orientation.
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