Synchronization and Waves in Active Media

• Main Author: Totz, Jan Frederik (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.

The interplay between synchronization and spatio-temporal pattern formation is central for a broad variety of phenomena in nature, such as the coordinated contraction of heart tissue, associative memory and learning in neural networks, and pathological synchronization during Parkinson disease or epi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Confined Scroll Rings
• Target Wave Synchronization on a Network
• Spiral Wave Chimera
• Appendix: Dimensional Reduction of Oscillators and Oscillatory Patterns.