Eikonal formulation of the minimal principle for scroll wave filaments.

Recently, Wellner et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 8015 (2002)]] proposed a principle for predicting a stable scroll wave filament shape as a geodesic in a 3D space with a metric determined by the inverse diffusivity tensor of the medium. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi theory we show that this geodesic is the shortest path for a wave propagating through the medium. This allows the use of shortest path algorithms to predict filament shapes, which we confirm numerically for a medium with orthotropic anisotropy. Our method can be used in cardiac tissue experiments since it does not require knowledge of the tissue anisotropy.

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