Compr.Analysis of mechanical waves accompanying nerve impulse
1. ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL
WAVES ACCOMPANYING
NERVE IMPULSE
Tiziano Modica
SUPERVISORS: MASSIMO CUOMO, PROF. ENG.
JÜRI ENGELBRECHT, PHD DSC
UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL
Master’s Degree Thesis in Civil Engineering Structural and Geotechnical
CENTRE FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES, INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS AT TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF
TECHNOLOGY, Tallinn - Estonia
15. Heimburg & Jackson model 2005
1D sound propagation
equation
Boussinesq-type equation
with solitonic solution
Melting transition
16. Engelbrecht Peets Tamm model 2014
Nerve fibre considered as a
rod
Navier-Bernoulli hypothesis
Rayleigh-Love correction
Bishop’s model according
to Porubov
21. Conclusions
PSM is accurate and efficient, it can be used to
solve PDEs and neural models
Pay attention to Gibbs phenomenon and aliasing
HH model is not complete, it explains only the
electric behaviour of AP propagation
22. Conclusions
Heimburg & Jackson model explains the
mechanical changes but it has some problems in
terms of cph and cgr
Engelbrecth Peets Tamm model solves Heimburg
& Jackson model’s problems
Phase velocity: the velocity at which the phase of any one frequency component of the wave propagates.
Group velocity: is the velocity with which the envelope of the wave packet, propagates through space.
Rayleigh-Love the transverse displacements w is associated to the longitudinal strain u proportionally to radius r and the Poisson coefficient 𝜈.
Navier-Bernoulli hypothesis of planarity and normality in respect with the rod axis of plane cross sections
Bishop’s model is an approximate model of wave propagation in rods suitable for the purpose since it provides, after some positions according to Porubov, the possibility to represent the anomalous dispersion (i.e. the Poisson coefficient must be negative) through the dispersion relation
h_2 allows to take into account the inertial effects introduced by the fourth-order mixed derivatives of the Bishop’s model and, from the relative values of h_1 and h_2 is possible to model the anomalous dispersion that comes from experimental evidences
J-Shaped Curve
according to the anomalous dispersion, the shorter waves emerge in front of the signal