Spiral Waves

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Author: Valentin Krinski, INLN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Valbonne, FRANCE

Spiral Waves

A wave rotating in 2d has a spiral shape (Wiener, Ros 1946). It can rotate even without a hole ( a guy from Rosenbl, 1949; Balakhovski 1965)

@ originate from a wave break (Krin, 1966).

they can drift in heterog medium (Krin, 1968). Drift can be induced, even in a homogeneous medium:Agl, Krin, 1984.

also by periodic modulation of excitability (mikhailov, davydov, agladze ).


ask Agladze to help; make him a co-author. make Gilmour as well.


Give table of AW properties as particles.

3 dim: Winfree, Strogatz


Author: Valentin Krinski, INLN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Valbonne, FRANCE
Editor: Vadim N. Biktashev, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool