Integrated heart—coupling multiscale and multiphysics models for the simulation of the cardiac function

A Quarteroni, T Lassila, S Rossi… - Computer Methods in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mathematical modeling of the human heart and its function can expand our understanding of
various cardiac diseases, which remain the most common cause of death in the developed …

Locking-free finite element methods for poroelasticity

R Oyarzúa, R Ruiz-Baier - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2016 - SIAM
We propose a new formulation along with a family of finite element schemes for the
approximation of the interaction between fluid motion and linear mechanical response of a …

High-performance unsymmetric 8-node hexahedral element in modeling nearly-incompressible soft tissues

YF Wang, S Cen, CF Li, Q Zhang - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In biomechanics problems, the biological soft tissues are usually treated as anisotropic
nearly incompressible hyperelastic materials, but such complicated nonlinear material …

SOniCS: Develop intuition on biomechanical systems through interactive error controlled simulations

A Mazier, S El Hadramy, JN Brunet, JS Hale… - Engineering with …, 2024 - Springer
We describe the SOniCS (SOFA+ FEniCS) plugin to help develop an intuitive understanding
of complex biomechanics systems. This new approach allows the user to experiment with …

A smoothed finite element method for analysis of anisotropic large deformation of passive rabbit ventricles in diastole

C Jiang, GR Liu, X Han, ZQ Zhang… - International journal for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The smoothed FEM (S‐FEM) is firstly extended to explore the behavior of 3D
anisotropic large deformation of rabbit ventricles during the passive filling process in …

Mixed Kirchhoff stress–displacement–pressure formulations for incompressible hyperelasticity

PE Farrell, LF Gatica, BP Lamichhane… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The numerical approximation of hyperelasticity must address nonlinear constitutive laws,
geometric nonlinearities associated with large strains and deformations, the imposition of …

Primal-mixed formulations for reaction–diffusion systems on deforming domains

R Ruiz-Baier - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose a finite element formulation for a coupled elasticity–reaction–diffusion system
written in a fully Lagrangian form and governing the spatio-temporal interaction of species …

Isogeometric analysis of multi-patch solid-shells in large deformation

Q Hu, D Baroli, S Rao - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2021 - Springer
In the context of isogeometric analysis (IGA) of shell structures, the popularity of the solid-
shell elements benefit from formulation simplicity and full 3D stress state. However some …

Equal order discontinuous finite volume element methods for the Stokes problem

S Kumar, R Ruiz-Baier - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2015 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze a family of stabilized discontinuous finite
volume element methods for the Stokes equations in two and three spatial dimensions. The …

Solvability analysis and numerical approximation of linearized cardiac electromechanics

B Andreianov, M Bendahmane… - … Models and Methods …, 2015 - World Scientific
This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of a coupled elliptic–parabolic
system modeling the interaction between the propagation of electric potential and …