Modelling Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Effects in Orthotropic Cardiac Tissue

Year:    2020

Author:    Ricardo Ruiz-Baier, Alessio Gizzi, Alessandro Loppini, Christian Cherubini, Simonetta Filippi

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 27 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 87–115

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new mathematical model for the active contraction of cardiac muscle, featuring different thermo-electric and nonlinear conductivity properties. The passive hyperelastic response of the tissue is described by an orthotropic exponential model, whereas the ionic activity dictates active contraction incorporated through the concept of orthotropic active strain. We use a fully incompressible formulation, and the generated strain modifies directly the conductivity mechanisms in the medium through the pull-back transformation. We also investigate the influence of thermo-electric effects in the onset of multiphysics emergent spatiotemporal dynamics, using nonlinear diffusion. It turns out that these ingredients have a key role in reproducing pathological chaotic dynamics such as ventricular fibrillation during inflammatory events, for instance. The specific structure of the governing equations suggests to cast the problem in mixed-primal form and we write it in terms of Kirchhoff stress, displacements, solid pressure, dimensionless electric potential, activation generation, and ionic variables. We also advance a new mixed-primal finite element method for its numerical approximation, and we use it to explore the properties of the model and to assess the importance of coupling terms, by means of a few computational experiments in 3D.

Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0253

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 27 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 87–115

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    29

Keywords:    Cardiac electromechanics orthotropic active strain thermo-electric coupling scroll wave propagation numerical simulations.

Author Details

Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

Alessio Gizzi

Alessandro Loppini

Christian Cherubini

Simonetta Filippi

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