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-axis were initiated in a two-dimensional medium of size, using the smooth Fenton-Karma model with parameter set FK2 (see Table A.2, p. 184), isotropic diffusion of and periodic boundary conditions….

Fig. 2.1 Equivalent circuit diagram for the cell membrane. The cell membrane is modeled as a capacitor that is charged to the membrane voltage by the Nernst potentials (,…) of…

Fig. 1.1 Spatio-temporal patterns in different excitable media. a Chemical waves in the two-dimensional Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Waves originating from the lower left corner have been broken by disturbing the solution…

. Relative to the electric-field induced depolarization next to a straight boundary, electrotonic effects lead to an enhancement of the maximum tissue depolarization towards negative curvatures and a decline towards…