| Authors | R. Artebrant |
| Title | Bifurcating Solutions to the Monodomain Model Equipped With FitzHugh-Nagumo Kinetics |
| Afilliation | Scientific Computing |
| Project(s) | Center for Biomedical Computing (SFF) |
| Status | Published |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2009 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Mathematics |
| Volume | 2009 |
| Publisher | Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
| Abstract | We study Hopf bifurcation solutions to the Monodomain model equipped with FitzHugh-Nagumo cell dynamics. This reaction-diffusion system plays an important role in the field of electrocardiology as a tractable mathematical model of the electrical activity in the human heart. In our setting the (bounded) spatial domain consists of two subdomains: a collection of automatic cells surrounded by collections of normal cells. Thus, the cell model features a discontinuous coefficient. Analytical techniques are applied to approximate the time-periodic solution that arises at the Hopf bifurcation point. Accurate numerical experiments are employed to complement our findings. |
| DOI | 10.1155/2009/292183 |
| Citation Key | Simula.SC.486 |