Simulation of electrophysiological waves with an unstructured finite element method

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 649-661

  Bourgault, Yves ^a   Ethier, Marc ^a   LeBlanc, Victor G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic bidomain model; FEM; Spiral waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345060505     PISSN: 0764583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/m2an:2003051     Document Type: Article

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