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Spiral waves are propagating self-organized structures commonly found in excitable media. Spiral waves of electrical excitation in cardiac systems connect to some arrhythmias, such as tachycardia and fibrillations, potentially leading to sudden cardiac death so that they should be eliminated. Such waves may drift and eventually annihilate at the boundary. However, they can be stabilized, when they are pinned to obstacles, that are weakly excitable or unexcitable regions in the medium. Recently, we used the Belousov-Zhabotinsky solutions, the well-known excitable chemical systems, to study the propagation of spiral waves pinned to obstacles and applied electrical forcing to unpin them in different situations of obstacle size and excitability. We employed simulations with the Oregonator model, a realistic scheme for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction , to confirm the experimental findings as well as to reveal the detailed motions of the spiral waves under some specific conditions that are difficult to be realized in the experiments.
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We thank the Faculty of Science, the Research and Development Institute (KURDI), the Center for Advanced Studies of Industrial Technology, and the Graduate School, Kasetsart University, and the Office of the Higher Education Commission and King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (contract no. KMUTNB-NRU-58-03) for financial support.
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Luengviriya, J., Sutthiopad, M., Phantu, M., Porjai, P., Müller, S.C., Luengviriya, C. (2018). Unpinning of Spiral Waves. In: Müller, S., Plath, P., Radons, G., Fuchs, A. (eds) Complexity and Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64334-2_11
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