Scroll waves are 3D versions of spiral waves, and the spiral tips come in curves: the filaments. The picture shows a snapshot of the evolution of such a filament for Barkley's version of the FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction diffusion equations.
(Picture from a SIADS Poster.)
Reference article: B. Fiedler, R.-M. Mantel, Crossover collisions of scroll wave filaments, Doc. Math. 5 (2000), 695-731.
| Author Institutional Affiliation | Free University of Berlin |
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| Keywords | Spiral waves, filaments, SIADS |