scholarly journals Solving the Coupled System Improves Computational Efficiency of the Bidomain Equations

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 2404-2412 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Southern ◽  
Gernot Plank ◽  
Edward J. Vigmond ◽  
Jonathan P. Whiteley
2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 3264-3268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teng Long ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Huai Jian Li

The advantages of global sensitivity equation (GSE) method are firstly pointed out, with which an improved multiple discipline feasible (MDF) strategy based on GSE, denoted as MDF-GSE, is developed. In MDF-GSE strategy, the sensitivity of complicated coupled system is calculated using GSE in a parallel manner, which makes MDF-GSE more efficiency when optimizing complicated coupled system compared with the original MDF strategy. Additionally, the preferable performance in convergence and robustness of MDF is also inherited in MDF-GSE. A conceptual optimization of a training airplane is executed using both MDF and MDF-GSE. The results of quantificational comparison demonstrate that computational efficiency is improved dramatically by using MDF-GSE, which makes required computation cost decreased by about 86%. The optimization time, furthermore, ulteriorly reduced due to the quasi-parallel capability of MDF-GSE. It is indicated that the MDF-GSE strategy can enhance the optimization efficiency for the complicated coupled systems.


Author(s):  
Miguel O. Bernabeu ◽  
Rafel Bordas ◽  
Pras Pathmanathan ◽  
Joe Pitt-Francis ◽  
Jonathan Cooper ◽  
...  

Recent work has described the software engineering and computational infrastructure that has been set up as part of the Cancer, Heart and Soft Tissue Environment (C haste ) project. C haste is an open source software package that currently has heart and cancer modelling functionality. This software has been written using a programming paradigm imported from the commercial sector and has resulted in a code that has been subject to a far more rigorous testing procedure than that is usual in this field. In this paper, we explain how new functionality may be incorporated into C haste . Whiteley has developed a numerical algorithm for solving the bidomain equations that uses the multi-scale (MS) nature of the physiology modelled to enhance computational efficiency. Using a simple geometry in two dimensions and a purpose-built code, this algorithm was reported to give an increase in computational efficiency of more than two orders of magnitude. In this paper, we begin by reviewing numerical methods currently in use for solving the bidomain equations, explaining how these methods may be developed to use the MS algorithm discussed above. We then demonstrate the use of this algorithm within the C haste framework for solving the monodomain and bidomain equations in a three-dimensional realistic heart geometry. Finally, we discuss how C haste may be developed to include new physiological functionality—such as modelling a beating heart and fluid flow in the heart—and how new algorithms aimed at increasing the efficiency of the code may be incorporated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Michael J. Vrhel ◽  
Artifex Software

Ghostscript has a long history in the open source community and was developed at the same time that page description languages were evolving to the complex specification of PDF today. Color is a key component in this specification and its description and proper implementation is as complex as any other part of the specification. In this document, the color processing and management that takes place in Ghostscript is reviewed with a focus on how its design achieves computational efficiency while providing flexibility for the developer and user.


10.29007/2k64 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Prodanovic ◽  
Cedric Goeury ◽  
Fabrice Zaoui ◽  
Riadh Ata ◽  
Jacques Fontaine ◽  
...  

This paper presents a practical methodology developed for shape optimization studies of hydraulic structures using environmental numerical modelling codes. The methodology starts by defining the optimization problem and identifying relevant problem constraints. Design variables in shape optimization studies are configuration of structures (such as length or spacing of groins, orientation and layout of breakwaters, etc.) whose optimal orientation is not known a priori. The optimization problem is solved numerically by coupling an optimization algorithm to a numerical model. The coupled system is able to define, test and evaluate a multitude of new shapes, which are internally generated and then simulated using a numerical model. The developed methodology is tested using an example of an optimum design of a fish passage, where the design variables are the length and the position of slots. In this paper an objective function is defined where a target is specified and the numerical optimizer is asked to retrieve the target solution. Such a definition of the objective function is used to validate the developed tool chain. This work uses the numerical model TELEMAC- 2Dfrom the TELEMAC-MASCARET suite of numerical solvers for the solution of shallow water equations, coupled with various numerical optimization algorithms available in the literature.


Author(s):  
Anna ILYENKO ◽  
Sergii ILYENKO ◽  
Yana MASUR

In this article, the main problems underlying the current asymmetric crypto algorithms for the formation and verification of electronic-digital signature are considered: problems of factorization of large integers and problems of discrete logarithm. It is noted that for the second problem, it is possible to use algebraic groups of points other than finite fields. The group of points of the elliptical curve, which satisfies all set requirements, looked attractive on this side. Aspects of the application of elliptic curves in cryptography and the possibilities offered by these algebraic groups in terms of computational efficiency and crypto-stability of algorithms were also considered. Information systems using elliptic curves, the keys have a shorter length than the algorithms above the finite fields. Theoretical directions of improvement of procedure of formation and verification of electronic-digital signature with the possibility of ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information were considered. The proposed method is based on the Schnorr signature algorithm, which allows data to be recovered directly from the signature itself, similarly to RSA-like signature systems, and the amount of recoverable information is variable depending on the information message. As a result, the length of the signature itself, which is equal to the sum of the length of the end field over which the elliptic curve is determined, and the artificial excess redundancy provided to the hidden message was achieved.


Filomat ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (20) ◽  
pp. 6269-6280
Author(s):  
Hassan Gadain

In this work, combined double Laplace transform and Adomian decomposition method is presented to solve nonlinear singular one dimensional thermo-elasticity coupled system. Moreover, the convergence proof of the double Laplace transform decomposition method applied to our problem. By using one example, our proposed method is illustrated and the obtained results are confirmed.


Author(s):  
Amos Golan

In this chapter I provide additional rationalization for using the info-metrics framework. This time the justifications are in terms of the statistical, mathematical, and information-theoretic properties of the formalism. Specifically, in this chapter I discuss optimality, statistical and computational efficiency, sufficiency, the concentration theorem, the conditional limit theorem, and the concept of information compression. These properties, together with the other properties and measures developed in earlier chapters, provide logical, mathematical, and statistical justifications for employing the info-metrics framework.


Author(s):  
Sauro Succi

This chapter provides a bird’s eye view of the main numerical particle methods used in the kinetic theory of fluids, the main purpose being of locating Lattice Boltzmann in the broader context of computational kinetic theory. The leading numerical methods for dense and rarified fluids are Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), respectively. These methods date of the mid 50s and 60s, respectively, and, ever since, they have undergone a series of impressive developments and refinements which have turned them in major tools of investigation, discovery and design. However, they are both very demanding on computational grounds, which motivates a ceaseless demand for new and improved variants aimed at enhancing their computational efficiency without losing physical fidelity and vice versa, enhance their physical fidelity without compromising computational viability.


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