Non-conforming finite-element formulation for cardiac electrophysiology: an effective approach to reduce the computation time of heart simulations without compromising accuracy

DOI10.1007/s00466-017-1473-5zbMath1446.35222OpenAlexW2751799290WikidataQ113327345 ScholiaQ113327345MaRDI QIDQ1990715

Guillermo Rojas, Daniel E. Hurtado

Publication date: 25 October 2018

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-017-1473-5

zbMATH Keywords

non-conforming finite elementscardiac electrophysiologynon-linear reaction-diffusion equationincompatible modesnonlinear finite-element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to biology (92-10)

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Uses Software

• Chaste
• FEAP

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