An Explicit Space-time Adaptive Method for Simulating Complex Cardiac Dynamics
Computational Physics
2009-10-31 v3
Abstract
For plane-wave and many-spiral states of the experimentally based Luo-Rudy 1 model of heart tissue in large (8 cm square) domains, we show that an explicit space-time-adaptive time-integration algorithm can achieve an order of magnitude reduction in computational effort and memory - but without a reduction in accuracy - when compared to an algorithm using a uniform space-time mesh at the finest resolution. Our results indicate that such an explicit algorithm can be extended straightforwardly to simulate quantitatively large-scale three-dimensional electrical dynamics over the whole human heart.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9908008,
title = {An Explicit Space-time Adaptive Method for Simulating Complex Cardiac Dynamics},
author = {Elizabeth M. Cherry and Henry S. Greenside and Craig S. Henriquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9908008},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages (LaTeX), 3 color PostScript figure files, submitted to PRL; Changed content of one paragraph; Correcting corrupt fig2a