Orthotropic active strain models for the numerical simulation of cardiac biomechanics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 761-788

  Rossi, Simone ^a,b   Ruiz Baier, Ricardo ^a   Pavarino, Luca F ^c   Quarteroni, Alfio ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active strain formulation; Cardiac mechanics; Finite element discretization; Nonlinear incompressible elasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION MODELS; ACTIVE DEFORMATION; ACTIVE PARTS; ACTIVE STRESS; CARDIAC MECHANICS; CARDIAC TISSUES; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CELL LEVELS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONSTITUTIVE LAW; DEFORMATION GRADIENTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; INTERMEDIATE CONFIGURATION; MECHANICAL ACTIVATION; MECHANICAL PROBLEMS; MULTIPLICATIVE DECOMPOSITION; NEWTON ITERATIONS; NONLINEAR INCOMPRESSIBLE ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION; STRAIN FORMULATION; STRAIN MODEL; TOTAL ENERGY; WELLPOSEDNESS;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LINEAR SYSTEMS; STRAIN; TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84862313178     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2473     Document Type: Article

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