An active strain electromechanical model for cardiac tissue

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-71

  Nobile, F ^a   Quarteroni, A ^a,b   Ruiz Baier, R ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active strain; Bidomain equations; Cardiac electromechanical coupling; Finite elements; Nonlinear elasticity; Reaction diffusion problem

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PARTS; BIDOMAIN; BIDOMAIN EQUATION; CARDIAC TISSUES; COMPRESSIBLE NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; DEFORMATION TENSORS; DISPLACEMENTS FIELDS; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL PROPAGATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; EULERIAN; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; LAGRANGIAN; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE DECOMPOSITION; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL TESTS; PIECE-WISE; PIECEWISE LINEAR; QUADRATIC FINITE ELEMENTS; REACTION DIFFUSION PROBLEMS;

BIOLOGY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEART; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TISSUE;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84856385167     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1468     Document Type: Article

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