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Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Volume 15, 2012 - Issue 6
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A fully implicit finite element method for bidomain models of cardiac electrophysiology

Hüsnü Dal Institute for Structural Analysis, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, D-01062, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Serdar Göktepe Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Construction Materials, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR-06531, Turkey
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Michael Kaliske Institute for Structural Analysis, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, D-01062, Germany
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Ellen Kuhl Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Pages 645-656 | Received 27 Sep 2010, Accepted 10 Jan 2011, Published online: 11 Apr 2011

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