Models of cardiac tissue electrophysiology are an important component of the Cardiac
Physiome Project, which is an international effort to build biophysically based multi-scale …

This book covers the main mathematical and numerical models in computational
electrocardiology, ranging from microscopic membrane models of cardiac ionic channels to …

Electromechanical (EM) models of the heart have been used successfully to study
fundamental mechanisms underlying a heart beat in health and disease. However, in all …

In this study, the feasibility of conducting in silico experiments in near-realtime with
anatomically realistic, biophysically detailed models of human cardiac electrophysiology is …

Atrial arrhythmias are the most frequent sustained rhythm disorders in humans and often
lead to severe complications such as heart failure and stroke. Despite the important insights …

The use of computer models as a tool for the study and understanding of the complex
phenomena of cardiac electrophysiology has attained increased importance nowadays. At …

Computational models of cardiac electromechanics (EM) are increasingly being applied to
clinical problems, with patient-specific models being generated from high fidelity imaging …

This book deals with the general topic “Numerical solution of partial differential equations
(PDEs)” with a focus on adaptivity of discretizations in space and time. By and large …

In cardiac electrophysiology, the propagation of the action potential may be described by a
set of reaction–diffusion equations known as the bidomain model. The shape of the solution …

Electrocardiology models are nonlinear reaction–diffusion type systems, where the
numerical simulation requires extremely fine meshes to accurately compute the heart's …