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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 77, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.046217
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The influence of a spatially localized heterogeneity defect, defined by failure of the diffusion effect, on spiral turbulence suppression in two-dimensional excitable media is studied numerically, based on the Bar model. It is shown that in certain parameter regions spiral turbulence without the defect can be suppressed by a boundary periodic forcing (called active control) if the forcing frequency is properly chosen. However, with a sufficiently large defect this active control method no longer works due to the wake turbulence following the defect. We suggest an auxiliary method of enclosing the defect with a thin layer of material of high excitability (called passive control) to screen the interaction between the defect and the turbulence and to restore the global control effect of the periodic forcing. The possible application of the method in cardiac defibrillation is discussed.
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