Abstract
A nonlinear two-dimensional model of the basilar membrane structure solved by the finite difference technique is presented in this paper. In this model active feedback is used to provide sharp tuning and a saturating nonlinearity of the Outer Hair Cell (OHC) demonstrates suppression in the response at high intensity levels. A modified form of the Gaussian block elimination technique is used which leads to a significant reduction in the computations involved with a two-dimensional model.
