Anatomically accurate high resolution modeling of human whole heart electromechanics: A strongly scalable algebraic multigrid solver method for nonlinear deformation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 305, Issue , 2016, Pages 622-646

  Augustin, Christoph M ^a   Neic, Aurel ^a   Liebmann, Manfred ^b   Prassl, Anton J ^a   Niederer, Steven A ^c   Haase, Gundolf ^b   Plank, Gernot ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algebraic multigrid; Cardiac electromechanics; Parallel computing; Whole heart model

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; HEART; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEUROLOGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TISSUE;

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID PRECONDITIONER; ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; CARDIAC ELECTROMECHANICS; ELECTRO-MECHANICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELING; HEART BEATS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; MULTIGRID SOLVER; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; WHOLE-HEART MODEL;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84946811211     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.10.045     Document Type: Article

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