Monday, July 10
MS2
Advances in Cardiac Simulation
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Rio Mar 4
Research on cardiac arrhythmias, such as ventricular fibrillation, is particularly exciting at this time because of
advances in numerical algorithms and because of the ability to run these algorithms on powerful parallel computers. The
next few years offer the likelihood of quantitatively accurate three-dimensional simulations of an entire human
heart, which should provide valuable scientific and medical insights about the mechanisms of arrhythmias and
how to prevent or control them by electrical feedback or drugs. In this minisymposium, the speakers will survey recent
advances in heart simulation and discuss the implications of these advances.
Organizer: Elizabeth M. Cherry
Duke University, USA
- 10:30-10:55 A Space-time Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Simulating Complex Cardiac Dynamics
- Elizabeth M. Cherry, Organizer; Henry S. Greenside and Craig S. Henriquez, Duke University, USA
- 11:00-11:25 A Fast Variable-Timestep Method for Modeling Excitable Systems
- Niels F. Otani and Diddier Allexandre, Case Western Reserve University, USA
- 11:30-11:55 Isolated Cable Approach for Simulations of Cardiac Electrical Activity
- Edward J. Vigmond and Natalia Trayanova, Tulane University, USA
- 12:00-12:25 Breakup of Spiral Waves in 3D and the Onset of Ventricular Fibrillation
- Flavio H. Fenton, Hofstra University, USA; and Alain Karma, Northeastern University, USA