A spiral wave precesses and drifts away from a localized inhomogeneity (green) into a circular orbit.

From the article:

Orbital Motion of Spiral Waves in Excitable Media
V. N. Biktashev, D. Barkley, and I. V. Biktasheva
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 058302 (2010)

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