Abstract
It has been recently observed that a passive barrier separating two excitable chemical media may transform the frequency of a train of incoming pulses. In this work we apply the FitzHugh-Nagumo-type model to study this phenomenon in a detailed way. Our numerical calculations demonstrate that at the barrier a periodic train of pulses may be transformed into a complex output signal. The ratio of frequencies of the output and the input signals, plotted as a function of the barrier’s width or as a function of the input signal frequency, has a devil’s-staircase-like shape.
- Received 27 February 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.016212
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