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The dynamics of ventricular fibrillation caused by irregular excitation is simulated in the frame of the monodomain model with an action potential model due to Aliev-Panfilov for a human 3D geometry. The numerical solution of this multiscale reaction-diffusion problem is attacked by algorithms which are fully adaptive in both space and time (code library {\sc Kardos}). The obtained results clearly demonstrate an accurate resolution of the cardiac potential during the excitation and the plateau phases (in the regular cycle) as well as after a reentrant excitation (in the irregular cycle).