Abstract

We study a system of nonlinear differential equations simulating transport phenomena in active media. The model we are interested in is a generalization of the celebrated FitzHugh–Nagumo system describing the nerve impulse propagation in axon. The modeling system is shown to possesses soliton-like solutions under certain restrictions on the parameters. The results of theoretical studies are backed by the direct numerical simulation.

Highlights

  • Studies of traveling wave (TW) solutions to nonlinear evolution equations attract attention of many researchers

  • The subject of this work is a study of the solitary wave solutions supported by the modification of the FitzHugh–Nagumo equations [8, 20] taking into account the effects of relaxation

  • The main problem we address in this work is the proof of existence of the solitary waves among the set of TW solutions of the modified FitzHugh–Nagumo system

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Introduction

Studies of traveling wave (TW) solutions to nonlinear evolution equations attract attention of many researchers. The subject of this work is a study of the solitary wave solutions supported by the modification of the FitzHugh–Nagumo equations [8, 20] taking into account the effects of relaxation. Equation (14) differs from the first equation of system (3) by the presence of an additional factors at the term vt As it was noted in the introduction, the main purpose of this paper is to rigorously prove the existence of a soliton solution for a hyperbolic analogue of the FitzHugh–Nagumo system. It is worth noting that numerical experiments confirm the presence of soliton regimes among the solutions of system (14)–(15), the rigorous proof of their existence is beyond the scope of this paper

Existence of solitary wave solutions
Local invariant manifolds of the origin
Asymptotic behavior of the unstable invariant manifold
Insight into the structure of the subsets Ω2
Solutions corresponding to the solitary waves
Conclusion
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