On modeling soft biological tissues with the natural element method

Biomechanical Systems Technology: Volume 1: Computational Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-116

  Doblare M ^a   Calvo, B ^a   Martinez M A ^a   Pena E ^a   Perez Del Palomar A ^a   Rodriguez J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cornea; Heart; Human joints; Meshless methods; Natural element method; Soft tissues

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; HEART; HISTOLOGY; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CORNEA; HUMAN JOINTS; MESH-LESS METHODS; NATURAL ELEMENT METHOD; SOFT TISSUE;

TISSUE;

EID: 84897110643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812770042_0003     Document Type: Chapter

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