Publication List of Wouter-Jan Rappel

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Published Work

  1. W.-J. Rappel, L.F. Feiner and M.F.H. Schuurmans, Lifetime of free excitons in GaAs, in Excitons in Confined Systems, edited by R. Del Sole, A. D'Andrea and A. Lapiccirella (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987).
  2. W.-J. Rappel, L.F. Feiner and M.F.H. Schuurmans, Exciton-polariton picture of the free-exciton lifetime in GaAs. Phys. Rev. B 38 (1988), 7874.
  3. W.-J. Rappel, Patterns in directional solidification, in Nonlinear Structures in Physical Systems, edited by Lui Lam and Hedley C. Morris (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990).
  4. E.A. Brener, David A. Kessler, Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Selection of the Viscous Finger in the 90o geometry. Europhys. Lett. 13 (1990), 161.
  5. Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Numerical study for traveling waves in directional solidification. Phys. Rev. A. 42 (1990), 7475.
  6. Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel, The oscillatory instability in rapid solidification. J. Physique 1 (France)1 (1991), 1291.
  7. Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Hermann Riecke, Resonant interaction and traveling solidification cells. Phys. Rev. A 43 (1991), 1122.
  8. Wouter-Jan Rappel and Hermann Riecke, Parity breaking in directional solidification: numerics versus amplitude equations. Phys. Rev. A 45 (1992), 846.
  9. Wouter-Jan Rappel and E.A. Brener, The stability of directional solidification cells. J. Physique I (France), 2 (1992), 1779.
  10. Vincent Hakim and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Dynamics of the globally coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Phys. Rev. A, 46 (1992), R7347.
  11. Chaouqi Misbah and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Cellular solutions in step flow growth. Phys. Rev. B, 48 (1993), 12193.
  12. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Asymmetric cell in directional solidification. Phys. Rev. E, 48 (1993), 4118.
  13. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Dynamics of a globally coupled laser model. Phys. Rev. E, 49 (1994), 2750.
  14. Laurent Fourtune, Wouter-Jan Rappel and M. Rabaud, Phase dynamics near a parity breaking instability. Phys. Rev. E, 49 (1994), R3576.
  15. Vincent Hakim and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Noise induced periodic behaviour in the globally-coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Europhys. Lett. 27 (1994), 637.
  16. Wouter-Jan Rappel and Steven H. Strogatz, Stochastic resonance without an external periodic force. Phys. Rev. E. 50 (1994), 3249.
  17. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Comment on ``Spatial subharmonics, irrational patterns and disorder in eutectic growth''. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995), 2444.
  18. Hermann Riecke and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Coexisting pulses in a model for binary-mixture convection. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995), 4035.
  19. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Phase-field method for computationally efficient modeling of solidification with arbitrary interface kinetics. Phys. Rev. E. 53 (1996), R3017.
  20. Vincent Hakim, Meir Griniasty and Wouter-Jan Rappel, ``Collective behavior in globally coupled systems'', to be published in Chaos and Complexity, edited by J. Tran Thanh Van.
  21. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Phase-field modeling of crystal growth: new asymptotics and computational limits, in Mathematics of Microstructural Evolution, edited by Long-Qing Chen, (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996).
  22. Wouter-Jan Rappel and Alain Karma, Noise induced coherence in neural networks and excitable elements. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 , 3256 (1996).
  23. Przemek Kopczynski, Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Critical role of crystalline anisotropy in the stability of cellular array structures in directional solidification. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 , 3387 (1996).
  24. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Numerical simulation of three-dimensional dendritic growth. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 , 4050 (1996).
  25. Przemek Kopczynski, Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Cellular multiplets in directional solidification. Phys. Rev. E. 55 , 1282 (1997).
  26. Marie-Line Chabanol, Vincent Hakim and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Collective chaos and noise in the globally-coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. Physica D 103 , 273 (1997).
  27. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Phase-field simulation of three-dimensional dendrites: Is microscopic solvability theory correct? J. of Cryst. Growth., 174 , 154 (1997).
  28. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Quantitative phase-field modeling of dendritic growth in two and three dimensions. Phys. Rev. E 57 , 4323 (1998).
  29. Alain Karma, Wouter-Jan Rappel, C. Fuh and R. Trivedi, Effects of melt convection on banding during directional solidification of peritectic systems. Metall. Mater. and Trans. A 29 , 1457 (1998).
  30. W. Losert, H.Z. Cummins, P. Kopczynski, W.-J. Rappel and A. Karma, Doublet cellular pattern in directional solidification selected through spatially periodic perturbations. Phys. Rev. E 68 , 7492 (1998).
  31. Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Phase-field model of dendritic sidebranching with thermal noise. Phys. Rev. E 60 , 3614 (1999).
  32. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Flavio Fenton and Alain Karma, Spatiotemporal control of wave instabilities in cardiac tissue. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 , 456 (1999).
  33. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Alistair Nicol, Armand Sarkissian, Herbert Levine and William F. Loomis, Self-organized vortex state in two-dimensional Dictyostelium dynamics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 , 1247 (1999).
  34. Alistair Nicol, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine and William F. Loomis, Cell-sorting in aggregates of Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Cell Sci. 112 , 3923 (1999).
  35. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Herbert Levine, Alistair Nicol and William F. Loomis, Modeling self-propelled deformable cell motion in the Dictyostelium mound; a status report. In The IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications 121 , edited by Philip K. Maini and Hans G. Othmer (Springer, New York c2001).
  36. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Filament instability and rotational tissue anisotropy; a numerical study using detailed cardiac models. CHAOS 11 , 71 (2001).
  37. Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Inon Cohen, Self-organization in systems of self-propelled particles. Phys. Rev. E. 63 , U715 (2001).
  38. Juan A. Acebron, Adi R. Bulsara, Mario E. Inchiosa and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Noise-mediated dynamics in a two-dimensional oscillator: Exact solutions and numerical results. Europhys. Lett. 56 , 354 (2001).
  39. Wouter-Jan Rappel, Peter J. Thomas, Herbert Levine, and William F. Loomis, Establishing direction during chemotaxis in eukaryotic cells. Biophys. J. 83 , 1361-1367 (2002).
  40. Juan A. Acebron, Adi R. Bulsara and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Cooperative dynamics in a class of coupled two-dimensional oscillators. Phys. Rev. E 63 , 016210 (2003).
  41. Juan A. Acebron, Adi R. Bulsara and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Probing a Noisy Oscillator System. Fluct. Noise Lett. 3 , L341 (2003).
  42. Julien Kockelkoren, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Computational approach for modeling intra- and extracellular dynamics. Phys. Rev. E 68 , 037702 (2003).
  43. Kai Wang, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Cooperativity can reduce stochasticity in intracellular calcium dynamics. Physical Biology 1 , 27 (2004).
  44. Hervé Henry and Wouter-Jan Rappel, The role of M cells and the long QT syndrome in cardiac arrhythmias: Simulation studies of reentrant excitations using a detailed electrophysiological model. Chaos 14 , 172 (2004).
  45. Flavio Fenton, Elizabeth Cherry, Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Modeling wave propagation in realistic heart geometries using the phase field method. Chaos 15 , 013502 (2005).
  46. Hervé Henry and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Dynamics of conduction blocks in a model of paced cardiac tissue. Phys. Rev. E 71 , 051911 (2005).
  47. Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Membrane-bound Turing patterns. Phys. Rev. E 72 , 061912 (2005).
  48. Kai Wang, Yuhai Tu, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine Excitation-Contraction Coupling Gain and Cooperativity of the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor: A Modeling Approach. Biophys. J. 89 , 3017 (2005).
  49. Rex Kerr, Herbert Levine H, Terrence Sejnowski and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli. PNAS 103 , 347 (2006).
  50. Peter McHale, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Embryonic pattern scaling achieved by oppositely directed morphogen gradients. Phys. Biol. 3 , 107 (2006).
  51. Adi R. Bulsara, John F. Lindner, Visarath In, Andy Kho, Salvatore Baglio, Vincenzo Sacco, Bruno Ando, Patrick Longhini, Antonio Palacios and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Coupling-induced cooperative behaviour in dynamic ferromagnetic cores in the presence of a noise floor. Physics Letters A 353 ,4 (2006).
  52. Wouter-Jan Rappel, David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine, Directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis: a balanced inactivation model. PNAS 103 , 9761 (2006).
  53. Loling Song, Sharvari M. Nadkarni, Hendrik U. Bodeker, Carsten Beta, Albert Bae, Carl A. Franck, Wouter-Jan Rappel, William F. Loomis and Eberhard Bodenschatz, Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis: Threshold for directed motion. Eur J Cell Biol 85 , 981 (2006)
  54. Carsten Beta, Danica Wyatt, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Eberhard Bodenschatz, Flow Photolysis for Spatiotemporal Stimulation of Single Cells. Anal. Chem. 79 , 3940 (2007)
  55. Kai Wang, Rex Kerr, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Quantifying noise levels of intercellular signals. Phys. Rev. E 75 , 061905 (2007)
  56. Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Receptor noise and directional sensing in eukaryotic chemotaxis. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 , 228101 (2008)
  57. Sanjiv M. Narayan, Dhruv Kazi, David E. Krummen and Wouter-Jan Rappel, Repolarization and activation restitution near human pulmonary veins and atrial fibrillation initiation: a mechanism for the initiation of atrial fibrillation by premature beats. J. Am. Coll. Card. 52 , 1222 (2008)
  58. Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Receptor noise limitations on chemotactic sensing. PNAS 105 , 19270 (2008).
  59. Wen Chen, Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel, A mathematical analysis of second messenger compartmentalization. Phys Biol. 10 , 46006 (2008).
  60. Inbal Hecht, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Determining the scale of the Bicoid morphogen gradient. PNAS 106 , 1710 (2009).
  61. Bo Hu, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Herbert Levine, Mechanisms and constraints on yeast MAPK signaling specificity. Biophys. J. 96 , 4755 (2009).