Parallel Computing Performance of a 3D Cardiac Tissue Model

Abstract

We developed a three dimensional cardiac tissue model based on human cardiac cell and mono-domain approximation for action potential propagation. The human myocyte model proposed by ten Tusscher et al. (TNNP model) (2004) for cell electrophysiology and a mono-domain method for electric wave propagation are used to simulate the cardiac tissue propagation mechanism using a finite element method. To delineate the parallel computing performance of the cardiac tissue simulation, we tested a 3D cardiac tissue model based on a monodomain method. In the 3D cardiac tissue with three cell layers, we generated a reentrant wave using S1-S2 protocol.