Excitable London: Street map analysis with Oregonator model
Emerging Technologies
2018-07-18 v2 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We explore geometry of London's streets using computational mode of an excitable chemical system, Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) medium. We virtually fill in the streets with a BZ medium and study propagation of excitation waves for a range of excitability parameters, gradual transition from excitable to sub-excitable to non-excitable. We demonstrate a pruning strategy adopted by the medium with decreasing excitability when wider and ballistically appropriate streets are selected. We explain mechanics of streets selection and pruning. The results of the paper will be used in future studies of studying dynamics of cities with living excitable substrates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.01632,
title = {Excitable London: Street map analysis with Oregonator model},
author = {Andrew Adamatzky and Neil Phillips and Roshan Weerasekera and Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas and Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01632},
year = {2018}
}