Wheeler, Paul; Barkley, Dwight Computation of spiral spectra. (English) Zbl 1093.35014 SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 5, No. 1, 157-177 (2006). Summary: A computational linear stability analysis of spiral waves in a reaction-diffusion equation is performed on large disks. As the disk radius \(R\) increases, the eigenvalue spectra converge to the absolute spectrum predicted by Sandstede and Scheel. The convergence rate is consistent with \(1/R\), except possibly near the edge of the spectrum. Eigenfunctions computed on large disks are compared with predicted exponential forms. Away from the edge of the absolute spectrum the agreement is excellent, while near the edge computed eigenfunctions deviate from predictions, probably due to finite-size effects. In addition to eigenvalues associated with the absolute spectrum, computations reveal point eigenvalues. The point eigenvalues and associated eigenfunctions responsible for both core and far-field break-up of spiral waves are shown. Cited in 12 Documents MSC: 35B30 Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs 35K57 Reaction-diffusion equations 74J30 Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics 92C99 Physiological, cellular and medical topics 35P20 Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs Keywords:spiral wave; excitable media; oscillatory media; eigenvalues; break-up; computational linear stability analysis PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. Wheeler} and \textit{D. Barkley}, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 5, No. 1, 157--177 (2006; Zbl 1093.35014) Full Text: DOI arXiv