Sharp interface and voltage conservation in the phase field method: Application to cardiac electrophysiology

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 837-854

  Buzzard, Gregery T ^a,b   Fox, Jeffrey J ^b   Siso Nadal, Fernando ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gene Network Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable equation; Cardiac model; Finite difference; Monodomain; Neumann boundary condition; Phase field; Voltage conservation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CABLES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CABLE EQUATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIAC MODEL; FINITE DIFFERENCE; MONODOMAINS; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; PHASE FIELD METHODS; PHASE FIELDS; SHARP INTERFACE; VOLTAGE CONSERVATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 55549100279     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060653378     Document Type: Article

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