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We focus on the qualitative analysis of the phase portraits arising in the three-parameter FitzHugh-Nagumo system and its compactified form. The investigation is split into three parameter-dependent cases. In one of these cases, the system…
We propose a method for optimizing mutual coupling functions to achieve fast and global synchronization between a pair of weakly coupled limit-cycle oscillators. Our method is based on phase reduction that provides a concise low-dimensional…
A two-time scale asymptotic method has been introduced to analyze the multimodal mean-field Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of oscillator synchronization in the high-frequency limit. The method allows to uncouple the probability density in…
Metallic nano-structures characterised by multiple geometric length scales support low-frequency surface-plasmon modes, which enable strong light localization and field enhancement. We suggest studying such configurations using singular…
A model is presented that is applicable to a wide range of peak-shaped voltammetric signals. It may be used, via curve-fitting, to resolve severely overlapped peaks, irrespective of the degree(s) of reversibility of the electrode processes.…
In this work a new mathematical model for complex neural networks is presented by the partly diffusive FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with ensemble boundary coupling. We analyze the dissipative dynamics and boundary coupling dynamics of the…
The phase oscillator model with global coupling is extended to the case of finite-range nonlocal coupling. Under suitable conditions, peculiar patterns emerge in which a quasi-continuous array of identical oscillators separates sharply into…
We formulate a phase-reduction method for a general class of noisy limit cycle oscillators and find that the phase equation is parametrized by the ratio between time scales of the noise correlation and amplitude relaxation of the limit…
We study synchronization and rhythmic patterns generated in the heterogeneous cluster of FitzHugh$-$Nagumo oscillators with transition between self-oscillating and excitable elements. Such cluster models the sinoatrial node of the heart,…
Phase resetting is a common experimental approach to investigating the behaviour of oscillating neurons. Assuming repeated spiking or bursting, a phase reset amounts to a brief perturbation that causes a shift in the phase of this periodic…
The response of a coupled array of nonlinear oscillators to parametric excitation is calculated in the weak nonlinear limit using secular perturbation theory. Exact results for small arrays of oscillators are used to guide the analysis of…
We study the synchronization phenomena in a system of globally coupled oscillators with time delay in the coupling. The self-consistency equations for the order parameter are derived, which depend explicitly on the amount of delay. Analysis…
We use a complex-valued transformation of the Kuramoto model to develop an operator-description of the linear stability in finite networks of nonlinear oscillators. This mathematical approach offers analytical predictions for the linear…
Perturbation theory is an important tool in the analysis of oscillators and their response to external stimuli. It is predicated on the assumption that the perturbations in question are "sufficiently weak", an assumption that is not always…
We investigate a ring of $N$ FitzHugh--Nagumo elements coupled in \emph{phase-repulsive} fashion and submitted to a (subthreshold) common oscillatory signal and independent Gaussian white noises. This system can be regarded as a reduced…
A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…
The calculation of discrete or continuous relaxation time spectra from rheometric measurables of polydisperse polymers is an ill-posed problem. In this paper, a curve fitting method for solving this problem is presented and compared to…
The FitzHugh-Nagumo equation, which was derived as a simplification of the Hodgkin-Huxley model for nerve impulse propagation, has been extensively studied as a paradigmatic activator-inhibitor system. We consider the version of this system…
We present various exact solutions of a discrete complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation on a plane lattice, which describe target patterns and spiral patterns and derive their stability criteria. We also obtain similar solutions to a system…
Arrays of coupled limit-cycle oscillators represent a paradigmatic example for studying synchronization and pattern formation. They are also of direct relevance in the context of currently emerging experiments on nano- and optomechanical…