Improved discretisation and linearisation of active tension in strongly coupled cardiac electro-mechanics simulations

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 604-615

  Sundnes, J ^a   Wall, S ^a   Osnes, H ^a   Thorvaldsen, T ^b   McCulloch, A D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac electro mechanics; operator splitting; strongly coupled simulation

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COUPLED SIMULATION; ELECTRO-MECHANICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; OPERATOR-SPLITTING; SYSTEM OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SYSTEMS OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

HEART;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMECHANICS; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TENSION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; HEART; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 84896309147     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2012.704368     Document Type: Article

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