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View SchemaHelicoidal instability of a scroll vortex in three-dimensional reaction-diffusion systems
| Authors | Igor Aranson, Igor Mitkov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9809005 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9809005 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.58.4556 |
| Journal | Physical Review E, V. 58, No. 4, 4556-4559 (1998) |
Abstract
We study the dynamics of scroll vortices in excitable reaction-diffusion systems analytically and numerically. We demonstrate that intrinsic three-dimensional instability of a straight scroll leads to the formation of helicoidal structures. This behavior originates from the competition between the scroll curvature and unstable core dynamics. We show that the obtained instability persists even beyond the meander core instability of two-dimensional spiral wave.
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