Modeling and Simulation of The Action Potential In Human Cardiac Tissues Using Finite Element Method

The modeling of the electrical activity of the heart is of great medical and scientific interest as it provides a way to better understand the underlying biophysical phenomena supports the development of new techniques for diagnoses and serves as a platform for drug tests. At cellular level, the electrical activity of cardiac tissues may be simulated by solving a system of ordinary deferential equations (ODEs) describing the electrical behavior of the cell membrane. Because the biophysical processes underlying this phenomenon are non-linear and change very rapidly, the ODE system is challenging to solve numerically. Furthermore, the implementation of these models is a hard task. In this paper we present a finite element method (FEM) of monodomain model which coupled with the modified FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) model in simulation of cardiac excitation isotropic propagation.