We study the dynamics of excitation pulses in a modified Oregonator model for the light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ)reaction assuming that the intensity of the applied illumination is a spatiotemporal stochastic field with finite correlation time and correlation length. For a two-component version of the model we discuss the dependence of the pulse speed on the characteristic parameters of the noise in the framework of a small noise approximation up to the first order in the correlation time. In the full three-component model we find enhancement of coherence resonance for suitable chosen correlation time. Based on this observation, we propose a mechanism for noise-enhanced propagation of pulse trains in excitable media subjected to external fluctuations.

Date Published: 7 May 2003
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 5114, Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics, (7 May 2003); doi: 10.1117/12.490183

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5114:
Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics
Lutz Schimansky-Geier; Derek Abbott; Alexander Neiman; Christian Van den Broeck, Editor(s)