A massively parallel computational electrophysiology model of the heart

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1911-1929

  Vazquez M ^a   Aris R ^a   Houzeaux, G ^a   Aubry, R ^a   Villar, P ^a   Garcia Barnes J ^b   Gil, D ^b   Carreras, F ^c  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b Barcelona Perception Computing Lab   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational electrophysiology; Finite element methods; Parallelization

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EXPLICIT FORMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLELIZATIONS; SIMULATION STRATEGIES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROLOGY; TISSUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 82255191941     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1443     Document Type: Article

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