Related papers: On the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model
The reaction-diffusion system of Fitzhugh Nagumo is considered. The initial- boundary problems with Neumann and Dirichlet conditions are analyzed. By means of an equivalent semilinear integrodifferential equation which characterizes several…
The topic of this paper are nonlinear traveling waves occuring in a system of damped waves equations in one space variable. We extend the freezing method from first to second order equations in time. When applied to a Cauchy problem, this…
The Fitzhugh-Nagumo equations have been used as a caricature of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations of neuron firing to better understand the essential dynamics of the interaction of the membrane potential and the restoring force and to capture,…
In this paper we consider the long time behavior of solutions of the initial value problem for the damped wave equation of the form \begin{eqnarray*} u_{tt}-\rho(x)^{-1}\Delta u+u_t+m^2u=f(u) \end{eqnarray*} with some $\rho(x)$ and $f(u)$…
We investigate the impact of spatial-temporal discretisation schemes on the dynamics of a class of reaction-diffusion equations that includes the FitzHugh-Nagumo system. For the temporal discretisation we consider the family of six backward…
We study the problem of initiation of excitation waves in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model. Our approach follows earlier works and is based on the idea of approximating the boundary between basins of attraction of propagating waves and of the…
This paper is devoted to the numerical approximation of the spatially-extended FitzHugh-Nagumo transport equation with strong local interactions based on a particle method. In this regime, the time step can be subject to stability…
We consider an interacting system of particles with value in $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$, governed by transport and diffusion on the first component, on that may serve as a representative model for kinetic models with a degenerate…
A wave front and a wave back that spontaneously connect two hyperbolic equilibria, known as a heteroclinic wave loop, give rise to periodic waves with arbitrarily large spatial periods through the heteroclinic bifurcation. The nonlinear…
We consider reaction-diffusion equations of porous medium type, with different kind of reaction terms, and nonnegative bounded initial data. For all the reaction terms under consideration there are initial data for which the solution…
The FitzHugh-Nagumo model describing propagation of nerve impulses in axon is given by fast-slow reaction-diffusion equations, with dependence on a parameter $\epsilon$ representing the ratio of time scales. It is well known that for all…
We design and study splitting integrators for the temporal discretization of the stochastic FitzHugh--Nagumo system. This system is a model for signal propagation in nerve cells where the voltage variable is solution of a one-dimensional…
We introduce a spatially extended transport kinetic FitzHugh-Nagumo model with forced local interactions and prove that its hydrodynamic limit converges towards the classical nonlocal reaction-diffusion FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Our approach…
Consider the bidomain equations subject to ionic transport described by the models of FitzHugh-Nagumo, Aliev-Panfilov, or Rogers-McCulloch. It is proved that this set of equations admits a unique, strong T-periodic solution provided it is…
We consider in this paper travelling wave solutions to stochastic partial differential equations and corresponding wave speed. As a particular example we consider the Nagumo equation with multiplicative noise which we mainly consider in the…
Many physical, chemical and biological systems have an inherent discrete spatial structure that strongly influences their dynamical behaviour. Similar remarks apply to internal or external noise, as well as to nonlocal coupling. In this…
We establish the existence and nonlinear stability of travelling wave solutions for a class of lattice differential equations (LDEs) that includes the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo system with alternating scale-separated diffusion coefficients.…
Dynamics of spiral waves in perturbed, e. g. slightly inhomogeneous or subject to a small periodic external force, two-dimensional autowave media can be described asymptotically in terms of Aristotelean dynamics, so that the velocities of…
We consider an Allen-Cahn type equation with a bistable nonlinearity associated to a double-well potential whose well-depths can be slightly unbalanced, and where the coefficient of the nonlinear reaction term is very small. Given rather…
In this paper, we provide a mathematical framework in studying the wave propagation with the annihilation phenomenon in excitable media. We deal with the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a one-dimensional free boundary problem…