Patterns in Excitable Media

Excitable media comprise a class of models for a wide range of physical chemical and biological systems that exhibit spontaneous formation of spatial patterns. Patterns in Excitable Media: Genesis Dynamics and Control covers recent developments in the interdisciplinary field of dynamics and control of patterns in nonlinear biological systems described by excitable media models. Using examples of many real-life systems it explores the impact of pattern dynamics on the structural and functional heterogeneities in the system. The book also discusses low-amplitude control schemes for eliminating patterns from an excitable medium such as life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia. Codes for numerical simulation are provided in the appendix.