A numerical method for cellular electrophysiology based on the electrodiffusion equations with internal boundary conditions at membranes

Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-134

  Mori, Yoichiro ^a   Peskin, Charles S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodiffusion; Ephaptic transmission; Finite volume method; Three dimensional cellular electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015432804     PISSN: 15593940     EISSN: 21575452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/camcos.2009.4.85     Document Type: Article

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