Nucleation from the Boundaries in Excitable Media

Nucleation from a boundary is experimentally and numerically studied in a one-dimensional array in two excitable media consisting of Chua's circuits and the Oregonator model, respectively. Forcing from a boundary with a pulse of constant amplitude and infinite duration gives rise to a periodic wave train propagating through the array. As the amplitude of the pulse increases, wave period evolves to chaos through a period doubling cascade.

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