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Propagation of pulses in myelinated fibers may be described by appropriate solutions of spatially discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo systems. In these systems, propagation failure may occur if either the coupling between nodes is not strong enough or…
We establish the existence and nonlinear stability of travelling pulse solutions for the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo equation with infinite-range interactions close to the continuum limit. For the verification of the spectral properties, we…
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 develop a method for computing the stochastic wave speed of pulse solutions in kinematic equations subject to small stochastic forcing based on the isochronal phase reduction. These kinematic equations arise as the singular limit of…
The use of high-frequency currents in neurostimulation has received increased attention in recent years due to its varied effects on tissues and cells. Nonlinear differential equations are commonly used as models for Neurons, and averaging…
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…
Motivated by pulse-replication phenomena observed in the FitzHugh--Nagumo equation, we investigate traveling pulses whose slow-fast profiles exhibit canard-like transitions. We show that the spectra of the PDE linearization about such…
For a coupled slow--fast FitzHugh--Nagumo(FHN) equation derived from a reaction-diffusion-mechanics (RDM) model, Holzer, Doelman and Kaper in 2013 studied existence and stability of the travelling pulse, which consists of two fast orbit…
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…
Fast-slow systems are notoriously difficult to analyze with rigorous numerics, since the qualitative properties of the solution space change fundamentally when the so-called small parameter $\epsilon$ is varied from 0 to small non-zero…
We introduce a geometrical extension of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations describing propagation of electrical impulses in nerve axons. In this extension, the axon is modeled as a warped cylinder, rather than a straight line, as is usually…
We analyze synchronization of relaxation oscillations in multiple-timescale reaction-diffusion systems. Interpreting synchronization as convergence to frequency-synchronized wave-train solutions, we resolve for the first time the case of…
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…
First time in six decades, uncountable infinite exact solutions of FitzHugh-Nagumo model with diffusion have been found. FitzHugh-Nagumo model is a nonlinear dynamical system applicable to neurosciences, chemical kinetics, cell division,…
We consider the singularly perturbed limit of periodically excited two-dimensional FitzHugh-Nagumo systems. We show that the dynamics of such systems are essentially governed by an one-dimensional map and present a numerical scheme to…
We study a system of nonlinear differential equations simulating transport phenomena in active media. The model we are interested in is a generalization of the celebrated FitzHugh-Nagumo system, describing the nerve impulse propagation in…
We consider synchronization by noise for stochastic partial differential equations which support traveling pulse solutions, such as the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation. We show that any two pulse-like solutions which start from different positions…
We introduce discrete and p-adic continuous versions of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system on the one-dimensional p-adic unit ball. We provide criteria for the existence of Turing patterns. We present extensive simulations of some of these systems.…
We consider a stochastic perturbation of a FitzHugh-Nagumo system. We show that it is possible to generate oscillations for values of parameters which do not allow oscillations for the deterministic system. We also study the appearance of a…
The asymptotic limit-cycle analysis of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations is presented. In this work, we obtain an explicit analytical expression for the relaxation-oscillation period that is accurate within 1\% of their numerical values. In…