Adaptive macro finite elements for the numerical solution of monodomain equations in cardiac electrophysiology

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2331-2345

  Heidenreich, Elvio A ^a,b   Ferrero, José M ^c   Doblaré, Manuel ^a,b   Rodríguez, José F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac modeling; Efficient numerical schemes; Macro finite elements; Monodomain equation; Pseudo adaptive meshes; Reaction diffusion equations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHES; CARDIAC MODELING; EFFICIENT NUMERICAL SCHEMES; FINITE ELEMENT; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEART; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SCALABILITY; STANDARDS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS;

EID: 77954635297     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9997-2     Document Type: Article

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