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可激发介质中的稳定和不稳定涡结

Stable and Unstable Vortex Knots in Excitable Media

Jack Binysh, Carl A. Whitfield, Gareth P. Alexander

摘要:

我们使用FitzHugh-Nagumo模型研究了体可激发介质中的纽结涡的动力学。从一个系统的调查,在最多8个路口的所有节点,我们建立了通用的行为是不稳定的,不规则的动态,与延长的时间膨胀的部分旋涡。长度膨胀的机制是一种长程的“波拍击”相互作用,类似于由较大的涡环湮灭小涡环的机制。我们还表明,有稳定的旋涡几何形状的某些结,除了unknot,三叶形和图8结以前报道,我们已经发现了稳定的例子,怀特黑德链接和$6_2$结。我们给他们的几何形状和稳态运动的一个彻底的表征。对于解开,三叶形和数字8结,我们大大扩展了以前的证据,FitzHugh-Nagumo动力学解开最初复杂的几何形状,同时保持拓扑结构。

英文摘要:

We study the dynamics of knotted vortices in a bulk excitable medium using the FitzHugh-Nagumo model. From a systematic survey of all knots of at most eight crossings we establish that the generic behaviour is of unsteady, irregular dynamics, with prolonged periods of expansion of parts of the vortex. The mechanism for the length expansion is a long-range `wave slapping' interaction, analogous to that responsible for the annihilation of small vortex rings by larger ones. We also show that there are stable vortex geometries for certain knots; in addition to the unknot, trefoil and figure eight knots reported previously, we have found stable examples of the Whitehead link and $6_2$ knot. We give a thorough characterisation of their geometry and steady state motion. For the unknot, trefoil and figure eight knots we greatly expand previous evidence that FitzHugh-Nagumo dynamics untangles initially complex geometries while preserving topology.

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