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Controlling chaos by developing spiral wave from heterogeneity in excitable medium

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We study pattern formation induced by a spiral wave developing from heterogeneities in an excitable medium. Turbulence can be suppressed by a spiral wave from the heterogeneity, forming multiple coexistent systems of regular geometrical patterns. We find that the types of these patterns depend critically on the degree of heterogeneity. The underlying mechanism is due to dispersion relation which is characterized by excitability.

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    Jiang-Xing Chen, Jiang-Rong Xu, Xiang-Peng Zhang, Ju-Wang Zhang & Xiao-Wei Zhang

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Chen, JX., Xu, JR., Zhang, XP. et al. Controlling chaos by developing spiral wave from heterogeneity in excitable medium. centr.eur.j.phys. 7, 108–113 (2009). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11534-008-0139-5

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