Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System (eBook)

Prof. Alfio Quarteroni, Professor of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the School of Mathematics of EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Switzerland) and Director of the Mathematics Institute of Computational Science and Engineering (MATHICSE) at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland).

1 Cardiac Arrhythmias: Mechanistic Knowledge and Innovation from Computer Models. Natalia A. Trayanova and Patrick M. Boyle.- 2 Discrete Mechanical Modeling of Mechanoelectrical Feedback in Cardiac Tissue: Novel Mechanisms of Spiral Wave Initiation. Louis D. Weise and Alexander V. Panfilov.- 3 Multiscale Modelling of Cardiac Perfusion. Jack Lee, Andrew Cookson, Radomir Chabiniok, Simone Rivolo, Eoin Hyde, Matthew Sinclair, Christian Michler, Taha Sochi and Nicolas Smith.- 4 Using image-based CFD to investigate the intracardiac turbulence. C. Chnafa, S. Mendez, R. Moreno and F. Nicoud.- 5 Multiscale Modeling of Sickle Cell Anemia. Huan Lei and George Em Karniadakis.- 6 A three-dimensional continuum model of active contraction in single cardiomyocytes. Alessio Gizzi, Ricardo Ruiz-Baier, Simone Rossi, Aymen Laadhari, Christian Cherubini, and Simonetta Filippi.- 7 On the Assumption of Laminar ow in Physiological Flows: Cerebral Aneurysms as an Illustrative Example. Oyvind Evju and Kent-Andre Mardal.- 8 Effects of poroelasticity on fluid-structure interaction in arteries: a computational sensitivity study. M. Bukac, I. Yotov, R. Zakerzadeh, P. Zunino.- 9 Personalized Anatomical Meshing of Human Body with Applications. Yuri Vassilevski, Alexander Danilov, Yuri Ivanov, Sergey Simakov and Timur Gamilov.