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The case of zero tip growth rate.

One of necessary conditions for the results of previous subsection is that parameter tex2html_wrap_inline1192 is nonzero -- and, moreover, is negative. Let us consider the special case

  equation503

Now we look for solutions to the finite problem (47) in the form

  eqnarray507

at the J-branch, where tex2html_wrap_inline1480 is the least positive root of equation

  equation512

Then tex2html_wrap_inline1482 and hence boundary conditions (47) become

  eqnarray519

where tex2html_wrap_inline1484 . This gives

  eqnarray534

and the dimensional parameters of the spiral wave solution are

  eqnarray541

This solution formally coincides, in the main orders, with that presented in [10, 11]:

eqnarray561

where p is a small parameter and tex2html_wrap_inline1488 was found by numerical integration of equation (38). This coincidence is achieved by identifying p with tex2html_wrap_inline1492 and tex2html_wrap_inline1494 with tex2html_wrap_inline1496 . In this `weak' sense we can say that the `traditional' case is of codimension 1 relative to the generic case, as the `traditional' spiral wave solution can be achieved if one additional conditions (61) is fulfilled. Note, however, that this is only a formal correspondence, as the small parameter p of [10, 11] has different physical sense from tex2html_wrap_inline1266 : while tex2html_wrap_inline1266 shows the instantaneous turning rate of a tip of an uncurved half-wave, with its growth rate being zero in this case, p is proportional to the growth rate while the turning rate is assumed identically zero. This is because coincidence of the solutions was achived not by coincidence of equations.



Vadim Biktashev
Sun Apr 13 11:38:06 GMT 1997