Simulations of Complex and Microscopic Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology Powered by Multi-GPU Platforms

Figure 3

In this work, there are only 5 possible types of connections between neighboring volumes that are membrane, which indicated no-flux between neighboring volumes; cytoplasm, which indicates that the neighboring volumes are within the same cell; three possible types of gap junctions, plicate, interplicate, and combined plicate. For the simulations presented in this work, the gap junction distribution of the basic template unit was manually chosen to reproduce the distribution presented before in [11, 17]. This figure presents an example of how different gap junctions are distributed in three neighboring myocytes that belong to the basic unit.