| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 59, Number 3, August 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 344 - 350 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00200-6 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Critical properties of excitation waves on curved surfaces: Curvature-dependent loss of excitability
1
Department of Physics, MIREA - Vernadskogo 78, 117454 Moscow, Russia
2
Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
3
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390, USA
Corresponding authors: davydov@lpi.ac.ru, stefan.mueller@physik.uni-magdeburg.de
Received:
11
February
2002
Accepted:
6
May
2002
In the literature, different properties of propagating excitation waves on curved surfaces are published. Theoretical papers predicted critical properties of waves on curved surfaces. If an excitation wave propagates in a non-planar system, its geodetic curvature causes a transition from excitable to non-excitable dynamics. In this paper we present first experimental results of the transition in a weakly excitable BZ system which are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.
PACS: 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems / 82.20.Wt – Computational modeling; simulation
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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