A heuristic description of spiral wave instability in discrete media

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(94)00221-BzbMath0885.34037OpenAlexW2065431515MaRDI QIDQ1346881

Bard Ermentrout

Publication date: 27 March 1995

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(94)00221-b

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitybifurcationHopf bifurcationBarkley's assertionchain of coupled oscillatorsrigidly rotating spiral wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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