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We propose a general multiscale approach for the mechanical behavior of three-dimensional networks of macromolecules undergoing strain-induced unfolding. Starting from a (statistically based) energetic analysis of the macromolecule…
In this mini-review we summarize the progress of modeling, simulation and analysis of shock responses of heterogeneous materials in our group in recent years. The basic methodology is as below. We first decompose the problem into different…
We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…
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In this paper homogenization of a mathematical model for biomechanics of a plant tissue with randomly distributed cells is considered. Mechanical properties of a plant tissue are modelled by a strongly coupled system of…
In standard models of cardiac electrophysiology, including the bidomain and monodomain models, local perturbations can propagate at infinite speed. We address this unrealistic property by developing a hyperbolic bidomain model that is based…
Computational modelling of diffusion in heterogeneous media is prohibitively expensive for problems with fine-scale heterogeneities. A common strategy for resolving this issue is to decompose the domain into a number of non-overlapping…
In this paper a microscopic model for a signalling process in the cardiac muscle tissue of the left ventricular wall, comprising non-periodic fibrous microstructure is considered. To derive the macroscopic equations we approximate the…
The bidomain system of degenerate reaction-diffusion equations is a well-established spatial model of electrical activity in cardiac tissue, with "reaction" linked to the cellular action potential and "diffusion" representing current flow…
We consider a thin heterogeneous layer consisted of the thin beams (of radius $r$) and we study the limit behaviour of this problem as the periodicity $\varepsilon$, the thickness $\delta$ and the radius $r$ of the beams tend to zero. The…
The simulation of the metabolism in mammalian cells becomes a severe problem if spatial distributions must be taken into account. Especially the cytoplasm has a very complex geometric structure which cannot be handled by standard…
In complex materials, numerous intertwined phenomena underlie the overall response at macroscale. These phenomena can pertain to different engineering fields (mechanical , chemical, electrical), occur at different scales, can appear as…