A parallel multilevel technique for solving the bidomain equation on a human heart with purkinje fibers and a torso model

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2855-2881

  Washio, Takumi ^a   Okada, Jun Ichi ^a   Hisada, Toshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidomain equation; Composite mesh; Excitation propagation; Multigrid; Torso

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION;

BIDOMAIN EQUATION; COMPOSITE MESH; EXCITATION PROPAGATION; HUMAN HEART; MULTI-GRID ALGORITHMS; MULTIGRID ALGORITHM; MULTIGRIDS; MULTILEVEL TECHNIQUE; PURKINJE FIBERS; TORSO;

HEART;

EID: 55149122653     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070689711     Document Type: Article

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