A multiresolution space-time adaptive scheme for the bidomain model in electrocardiology

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1377-1404

  Bendahmane, Mostafa ^a   Bürger, Raimund ^b   Ruiz Baier, Ricardo ^c  

^a AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bidomain model; Electrocardiology; Fully adaptive multiresolution schemes; Local time stepping; Parabolic elliptic system; Runge Kutta Fehlberg

Indexed keywords

BIDOMAIN MODELS; ELECTROCARDIOLOGY; LOCAL TIME STEPPING; MULTIRESOLUTION SCHEME; PARABOLIC-ELLIPTIC SYSTEM; RUNGE-KUTTA;

GEOMETRY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 77951132683     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: 10982426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20495     Document Type: Article

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