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In this paper a model for the electrical activity of the heart will be presented and an approach to solve the resulting numerical problem will be suggested. The Bidomain Model is used to compute the spatial distribution of the electrical potential. The partial differential equations are discretized with the finite element method and the multigrid method is used to solve the corresponding linear equations. Adaptivity is applied to resolve the steep gradients in the solution.
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Received: 24 January 2000 / Accepted: 29 June 2002 / Published online: 10 April 2003
Communicated by G. Wittum
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Lines, G., Grottum, P. & Tveito, A. Modeling the electrical activity of the heart: A Bidomain Model of the ventricles embedded in a torso . Comput Visual Sci 5, 195–213 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-003-0100-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-003-0100-5