Bifurcating Solutions to the Monodomain Model Equipped with FitzHugh-Nagumo Kinetics
Author(s) -
Robert Artebrant
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.307
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1687-0042
pISSN - 1110-757X
DOI - 10.1155/2009/292183
Subject(s) - hopf bifurcation , bifurcation , complement (music) , domain (mathematical analysis) , bounded function , reaction–diffusion system , mathematics , diffusion , bifurcation theory , mathematical analysis , statistical physics , physics , thermodynamics , nonlinear system , chemistry , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , complementation , gene , phenotype
We study Hopf bifurcation solutions to the Monodomain model equipped with FitzHugh-Nagumo cell dynamics. This reaction-diffusion system plays an important role in the field of electrocardiology as a tractable mathematical model of the electrical activity in the human heart. In our setting the (bounded) spatial domain consists of two subdomains: a collection of automaticcells surrounded by collections of normal cells. Thus, the cell model features a discontinuous coefficient. Analytical techniques are applied to approximate the time-periodic solution that arises at the Hopf bifurcation point. Accurate numerical experiments are employed to complement our findings
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