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ResumenEn la actividad eléctrica cardiaca, distintos tipos de onda viajan a través del corazón. Presentamos un modelo de la actividad eléctrica del corazón, proponemos que los frentes de onda homogéneos que se propagan en el corazón son, de hecho, ondas solitarias, o “solitones”. Usamos un conjunto general de ecuaciones de reacción-difusión conocido como el modelo de Barrio-Varea-Aragón-Maini (BVAM)[1], el cual presenta una abundancia de bifurcaciones no lineales, siendo capaces de encontrar la ruta al caos usando un mapeo de las ecuaciones de amplitud a la dinámica de la ecuación compleja de Ginzburg-Landau. Estudiamos numéricamente la dinámica de los frentes de onda en el modelo BVAM para describir los mecanismos que conducen a la fibrilación en el corazón y comparamos los resultados con datos experimentales.AbstractIn cardiac electrical activity, different types of waves meander through the heart. We present a model of the electrical activity of the heart that proposes that the homogeneous wave fronts propagating through the heart are in fact solitons. We use a general set of reaction-diffusion equations known as the Barrio-Varea-Aragón-Maini (BVAM) model[1] that presents a wealth of non-linear bifurcations, and we are able to follow the route to chaos, using a mapping of the amplitude equations to the dynamics of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. We study the dynamics of wave fronts numerically in the BVAM model to describe the mechanisms leading to heart fibrillation and compare the findings with experimental data.

In this paper, we investigate the possibility to control the spiral waves and spatiotemporal chaos in an excitable media by subthreshold ordered waves, which is by definition in this paper the spatially ordered periodical subthreshold fluctuations of system variables. It is found that both the spiral wave and the spatiotemporal chaos could be driven out of the control domain by perturbation of periodical subthreshold ordered waves. The effective control time declines as the amplitude of subthreshold ordered waves are increased, or their frequencies are decreased. Furthermore, we show that the effectiveness of this method is also dependent on the spatial arrangement of the subthreshold ordered waves. We discuss the possible applications of this method, especially in the control of heart fibrillation.