title: Dispersive instability and its minimization in time-domain computation of steady-state responses of cochlear models.
abstract: Dispersive instability appears in time-domain solutions of classical cochlear models. In this letter, a derivation of optimal initial data is presented to minimize the effect of instability. A second-order accurate implicit boundary integral method is introduced. Numerical solutions of two-dimensional models show that the optimal initial conditions work successfully in time-domain steady-state computations for both the zero Neumann and zero Dirichlet fluid pressure boundary conditions at the helicotrema.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and ICES, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. jxin@math.utexas.edu
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xin
mesh_terms: D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008954:Models, Biological; D013997:Time Factors