A time-dependent adaptive remeshing for electrical waves of the heart.

Abstract

In this work, a time-dependent remeshing strategy and a numerical method are presented for the simulation of the action potential propagation of the human heart. The main purpose of these simulations is to accurately predict the depolarization-repolarization front position, which is essential to the understanding of the electrical activity in the myocardium. A bidomain model, which is commonly used for studying electrophysiological waves in the cardiac tissue, will be employed for the numerical simulations. Numerical results are enhanced by the introduction of an anisotropic remeshing strategy. The illustration of the performance and the accuracy of the proposed method are presented using a 2-D analytical solution and a test case with re-entrant waves.