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Most models of the electrical activity of an individual cardiac cell consist of a large number of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The electrical activity of these cells controls the contraction of cardiac tissue, allowing blood to be pumped around the body.
Research activity in the Computational Biology Group addresses the following aims.
- The use of mathematical models to explain experimentally observed phenomena.
- Coupling the electrical activity in the heart to the soft tissue mechanics.
- The accurate and efficient solution of the governing equations. The activities described above occur on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Adaptive techniques may be used to capture the rapidly varying components of the solution, whilst not expending effort computing to the same resolution components that don't vary as rapidly.
- The use of shared memory and distributed memory computing to reduce the execution time of cardiac simulations.
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