Biomathmatics&Bioengineering: the art of mathematical modelling: heart

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Heart dynamic modelling

Introduction

Diastole is when the heart is in rest;
Systole is when the heart is contracted;
The heart just has the ability to push out, not suck in.

Brainstorm

Mathematical modelling of physical phenomena, such as the dynamics of rigid body, the deformation of an elastic material or the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, is based, to the best of our present scientific knowledge, on sound physical laws. In biology and life sciences in general this interplay between the observed phenomenon and its mathematical description is still in the early stages of development and apart from the Hardy-Weinberg law associated with the Mendelian theory of genetics there are few sound postulates to guide us.