11 research outputs found
Cut finite element discretizations of cell-by-cell EMI electrophysiology models
The EMI (Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular) model describes electrical
activity in excitable tissue, where the extracellular and intracellular spaces
and cellular membrane are explicitly represented. The model couples a system of
partial differential equations in the intracellular and extracellular spaces
with a system of ordinary differential equations on the membrane. A key
challenge for the EMI model is the generation of high-quality meshes conforming
to the complex geometries of brain cells. To overcome this challenge, we
propose a novel cut finite element method (CutFEM) where the membrane geometry
can be represented independently of a structured and easy-to-generated
background mesh for the remaining computational domain.
Starting from a Godunov splitting scheme, the EMI model is split into
separate PDE and ODE parts. The resulting PDE part is a non-standard elliptic
interface problem, for which we devise two different CutFEM formulations: one
single-dimensional formulation with the intra/extracellular electrical
potentials as unknowns, and a multi-dimensional formulation that also
introduces the electrical current over the membrane as an additional unknown
leading to a penalized saddle point problem. Both formulations are augmented by
suitably designed ghost penalties to ensure stability and convergence
properties that are insensitive to how the membrane surface mesh cuts the
background mesh. For the ODE part, we introduce a new unfitted discretization
to solve the membrane bound ODEs on a membrane interface that is not aligned
with the background mesh. Finally, we perform extensive numerical experiments
to demonstrate that CutFEM is a promising approach to efficiently simulate
electrical activity in geometrically resolved brain cells.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figure
Modeling Excitable Tissue
This open access volume presents a novel computational framework for understanding how collections of excitable cells work. The key approach in the text is to model excitable tissue by representing the individual cells constituting the tissue. This is in stark contrast to the common approach where homogenization is used to develop models where the cells are not explicitly present. The approach allows for very detailed analysis of small collections of excitable cells, but computational challenges limit the applicability in the presence of large collections of cells
Modeling Excitable Tissue
This open access volume presents a novel computational framework for understanding how collections of excitable cells work. The key approach in the text is to model excitable tissue by representing the individual cells constituting the tissue. This is in stark contrast to the common approach where homogenization is used to develop models where the cells are not explicitly present. The approach allows for very detailed analysis of small collections of excitable cells, but computational challenges limit the applicability in the presence of large collections of cells
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