[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

M Fedele, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
While ventricular electromechanics is extensively studied in both physiological and
pathological conditions, four-chamber heart models have only been addressed recently; …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond CFD: Emerging methodologies for predictive simulation in cardiovascular health and disease

EL Schwarz, L Pegolotti, MR Pfaller… - Biophysics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Physics-based computational models of the cardiovascular system are increasingly used to
simulate hemodynamics, tissue mechanics, and physiology in evolving healthy and …

A mathematical model that integrates cardiac electrophysiology, mechanics, and fluid dynamics: Application to the human left heart

M Bucelli, A Zingaro, PC Africa… - … journal for numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a mathematical and numerical model for the simulation of the heart function that
couples cardiac electrophysiology, active and passive mechanics and hemodynamics, and …

[HTML][HTML] lifex: A flexible, high performance library for the numerical solution of complex finite element problems

PC Africa - SoftwareX, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in mathematics and computational science. Several
industrial and clinical applications entail modeling complex multiphysics systems that evolve …

lifex-cfd: An open-source computational fluid dynamics solver for cardiovascular applications

PC Africa, I Fumagalli, M Bucelli, A Zingaro… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool for the simulation of the
cardiovascular function and dysfunction. Due to the complexity of the anatomy, the …

Simulating impaired left ventricular–arterial coupling in aging and disease: a systematic review

CCA Ding, S Dokos, AA Bakir, NJ Zamberi… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2024 - Springer
Aortic stenosis, hypertension, and left ventricular hypertrophy often coexist in the elderly,
causing a detrimental mismatch in coupling between the heart and vasculature known as …

[HTML][HTML] A cardiac electromechanical model coupled with a lumped-parameter model for closed-loop blood circulation

F Regazzoni, M Salvador, PC Africa, M Fedele… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a novel mathematical and numerical model for cardiac electromechanics,
wherein biophysically detailed core models describe the different physical processes …

[HTML][HTML] An electromechanics-driven fluid dynamics model for the simulation of the whole human heart

A Zingaro, M Bucelli, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a multiphysics and geometric multiscale computational model, suitable to
describe the hemodynamics of the whole human heart, driven by a four-chamber …

lifex-fiber: an open tool for myofibers generation in cardiac computational models

PC Africa, R Piersanti, M Fedele, L Dede'… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Modeling the whole cardiac function involves the solution of several complex
multi-physics and multi-scale models that are highly computationally demanding, which call …

Whole-heart electromechanical simulations using latent neural ordinary differential equations

M Salvador, M Strocchi, F Regazzoni… - NPJ Digital …, 2024 - nature.com
Cardiac digital twins provide a physics and physiology informed framework to deliver
personalized medicine. However, high-fidelity multi-scale cardiac models remain a barrier to …