Optimal monodomain approximations of the bidomain equations

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 276-290

  Nielsen, Bjørn Fredrik ^a   Ruud, Tomas Syrstad ^a   Lines, Glenn Terje ^a   Tveito, Aslak ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bidomain and monodomain models; Electrical behavior of cardiac tissue; Output least squares

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BIDOMAIN MODELS; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIOR OF CARDIAC TISSUE; MONODOMAIN MODELS; OUTPUT LEAST SQUARES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 33846609511     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.05.158     Document Type: Article

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