Stability and convergence of a finite volume method for two systems of reaction-diffusion equations in electro-cardiology

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 916-935

  Coudière, Yves ^a   Pierre, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Electro cardiology; Finite volume method; Reaction diffusion PDE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRO-CARDIOLOGY; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; REACTION-DIFFUSION PDE; STABILITY CONDITIONS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 33748139474     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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