Interaction of waves in a one dimensional stochastic PDE model of excitable media

Hasan Alzubaidi; Tony Shardlow

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.1735

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Interaction of waves in a one dimensional stochastic PDE model of excitable media

Hasan Alzubaidi^1, and
Tony Shardlow^2,

1.
Mathematics Department, Al-Qunfudah University College, Umm Al-Qura University
2.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY

Received: May 31, 2012

Revised: January 31, 2013

Published: August 2013

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We study the Barkley PDE model of excitable media in a one dimensional periodic domain with additive space time noise. Regions of excitation and kinks (i.e., boundaries between regions of excitation) form due to the additive noise and propagate due to the underlying dynamics of the excitable media. We study the resulting distribution of excitation and kinks by developing a reduced model.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K58, 60H15.

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