Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart

by Joakim Sundnes, Glenn Terje Lines, Xing Cai

This book describes mathematical models and numerical techniques for simulating the electrical activity in the heart. It gives an introduction to the most important models, followed by a detailed description of numerical techniques. Particular focus is on efficient numerical methods for large scale simulations on both scalar and parallel computers. The results presented in the book will be of particular interest to researchers in bioengineering and computational biology.

330 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006