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Cardiac muscle is an excitable medium that is accurately described by empirical, nonlinear partial differential equations. Travelling wave phenomena are vital in its normal (and underly pathological) behaviour: some peculiarities of cardiac muscle, that complicate numerical investigations, are discussed.
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Holden, A.V. (1989). Idiosyncracies of Cardiac Tissue as an Excitable Medium. In: Engelbrecht, P.J. (eds) Nonlinear Waves in Active Media. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74789-2_23
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