Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2007-10-11
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
9 pages, 6 figures; A version of the work will appear as Chapter 32 in Handbook of Chaos Control, 2nd Revised edition, (Eds.)
Scientific paper
Excitable media are a generic class of models used to simulate a wide variety of natural systems including cardiac tissue. Propagation of excitation waves in this medium results in the formation of characteristic patterns such as rotating spiral waves. Instabilities in these structures may lead to spatiotemporal chaos through spiral turbulence, which has been linked to clinically diagnosed conditions such as cardiac fibrillation. Usual methods for controlling such phenomena involve very large amplitude perturbations and have several drawbacks. There have been several recent attempts to develop low-amplitude control procedures for spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media which are reviewed in this paper. The control schemes have been broadly classified by us into three types: (i) global, (ii) non-global spatially-extended and (iii) local, depending on the way the control signal is applied, and we discuss the merits and drawbacks for each.
Sinha Sitabhra
Sridhar Srinath
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