Cardiac Computational Modeling CCM
Overview:
The heart is the most sophisticated pump that hundreds million years of evolution could produce. At organ level, the heart is a coupled multi-physical system: electrical activation drives mechanical deformation which, in turn, pumps blood. The three problems are solved by Alya.
Contact: mariano.vazquez (at) bsc.es
Co-Funding
MIVAL3D Catalan funded research project
CDTeam Spanish funded research project
Awards
- 2012 HPC Innovation Excellence Award to Alya Red, recognizing “noteworthy achievements by users of high performance computing (HPC) technologies”, by IDC and the HPC User Forum.
- 2012 National Science Foundation Visualization Challenge, The Public’s Choice Award to Alya Red: A Computational Heart, video done by the BSC’s Visualization Team (F. Cucchietti, G. Marín and C. Tripiana).
BSC’s Main Researchers
M. Vázquez, G. Houzeaux, R. Arís, J. Aguado-Sierra, P. Lafortune, M. Rivero (FPI student, starting March 2013)
Collaborators
- Dr. Manel Ballester Rodés, MD. Facultat de Medicina - Universitat de Lleida
- Dr. Francesc Carreras, MD. Cardiac Imaging Unit - Cardiology Department - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
- Dr. Debora Gil - Interactive and Augmented Modeling Group - CVC - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- Dr. Rafael Sebastián - Computational Multiscale Physiology Lab - Departamento de Informática - Universitat de Valencia
- Dr. Oscar Cámara - PhySense Group: Sensing in Physiology and Biomedicine - UPF
- Dr. Antoine Jérusalem - Department of Engineering Science - University of Oxford
- Mival3D Project - Funded by Acció - Generalitat de Catalunya
Main References
- Vázquez, M., Arís, R., Houzeaux, G., Aubry, R., Villar, P., Garcia-Barnés, J., Gil, D. and Carreras, F. (2011), A massively parallel computational electrophysiology model of the heart. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Engng., 27: 1911–1929. doi: 10.1002/cnm.1443
- Lafortune, P., Arís, R., Vázquez, M. and Houzeaux, G. (2012), Coupled electromechanical model of the heart: Parallel finite element formulation. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Engng., 28: 72–86. doi: 10.1002/cnm.1494
