Simulation of action potential propagation based on the ghost structure method. 2019

Yongheng Wang, and Li Cai, and Xiaoyu Luo, and Wenjun Ying, and Hao Gao
NPU-UoG International Cooperative Lab for Computation and Application in Cardiology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China. wangyongheng91@mail.nwpu.edu.cn.

In this paper, a ghost structure (GS) method is proposed to simulate the monodomain model in irregular computational domains using finite difference without regenerating body-fitted grids. In order to verify the validity of the GS method, it is first used to solve the Fitzhugh-Nagumo monodomain model in rectangular and circular regions at different states (the stationary and moving states). Then, the GS method is used to simulate the propagation of the action potential (AP) in transverse and longitudinal sections of a healthy human heart, and with left bundle branch block (LBBB). Finally, we analyze the AP and calcium concentration under healthy and LBBB conditions. Our numerical results show that the GS method can accurately simulate AP propagation with different computational domains either stationary or moving, and we also find that LBBB will cause the left ventricle to contract later than the right ventricle, which in turn affects synchronized contraction of the two ventricles.

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