autowave

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ wave.

Noun

autowave (plural autowaves)

1. A self-supporting non-linear wave in active media (i.e. one of those that provide distributed energy sources).
   • 2015 November 12, “Emergence of Asynchronous Local Clocks in Excitable Media”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In this work, we consider the case where each element is spontaneously excited at a fixed average rate and thereby initiates a new autowave.