Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7155220 | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation | 2016 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
The dynamics of a detailed ionic cardiac cell model proposed by Sato et al. (2009) is investigated in terms of periodic and chaotic action potentials, bifurcation scenarios, and coexistence of attractors. Starting from the model's standard parameter values bifurcation diagrams are computed to evaluate the model's robustness with respect to (small) parameter changes. While for some parameters the dynamics turns out to be practically independent from their values, even minor changes of other parameters have a very strong impact and cause qualitative changes due to bifurcations or transitions to coexisting attractors. Implications of this lack of robustness are discussed.
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Authors
Stefan Otte, Sebastian Berg, Stefan Luther, Ulrich Parlitz,