Efficiency of semi-implicit alternating direction implicit methods for solving cardiac monodomain model

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Highlights

  • Three alternating direction implicit (ADI) schemes were investigated to efficiently solve the cardiac monodomain model.

  • The efficiency of the proposed ADI methods is illustrated in terms of the computational time and memory consumption.

  • The numerical experiments showed that the ADI-DG and ADI-Y are the most suitable FD methods for solving the monodomain model.

  • The presented ADI-DG method is of second order in space and time and is suitable for two- and three-dimensional simulations.

  • The computational gain is illustrated through several large-scale two- and three-dimensional examples.

Abstract

It is well known that numerical simulations of the cardiac monodomain model require fine mesh resolution, which increases the computational resources required. In this paper, we construct three operator-splitting alternating direction implicit (ADI) schemes to efficiently solve the nonlinear cardiac monodomain model. The main objective of the proposed methods is to reduce the computational time and memory consumed for solving electrocardiology models, compared to standard numerical methods. The proposed methods have second-order accuracy in both space and time while evaluating the ionic model only once per time-step. Several examples using regular wave, spiral wave reentry, and nonsymmetrical scroll wave are conducted, and the efficiency of the proposed ADI methods is compared to the standard semi-implicit Crank–Nicolson/Adams–Bashforth method. Large-scale two- and three-dimensional simulations are performed.

Keywords

Cardiac monodomain model
Alternating direction implicit (ADI) method
Finite difference
Aliev–panfilov model
Mitchell–schaeffer model
Spiral wave
Scroll wave

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