TY - GEN A1 - Franzone, Piero Colli A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Erdmann, Bodo A1 - Lang, Jens A1 - Pavarino, Luca Franco T1 - Adaptivity in Space and Time for Reaction-Diffusion Systems in Electrocardiology N2 - Adaptive numerical methods in space and time are introduced and studied for multiscale cardiac reaction-diffusion models in three dimensions. The evolution of a complete heartbeat, from the excitation to the recovery phase, is simulated with both the anisotropic Bidomain and Monodomain models, coupled with either a variant of the simple FitzHugh-Nagumo model or the more complex phase-I Luo-Rudy ionic model. The simulations are performed with the {\sc kardos} library, that employs adaptive finite elements in space and adaptive linearly implicit methods in time. The numerical results show that this adaptive method successfully solves these complex cardiac reaction-diffusion models on three-dimensional domains of moderate sizes. By automatically adapting the spatial meshes and time steps to the proper scales in each phase of the heartbeat, the method accurately resolves the evolution of the intra- and extra-cellular potentials, gating variables and ion concentrations during the excitation, plateau and recovery phases. T3 - ZIB-Report - 05-30 KW - reaction-diffusion equations KW - cardiac Bidomain and Monodomain models KW - adaptive finite elements KW - adaptive time integration Y1 - 2005 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/864 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-8649 ER -