Scientific Computation and Applied & Industrial Mathematics Seminar: Nilima Nigam

The response of the muscle-tissue unit (MTU) to activation and applied forces is affected by the architectural details as well as the material properties of this nearly-incompressible tissue. We will describe the (highly nonlinear) elastic equations governing this response for a fully three-dimensional, quasi-static, fully nonlinear and anisotropic MTU. We describe a three-field formulation for this problem, and present a DG discretization strategy. The scheme was implemented using {\tt deal.ii}. We present computational results about the effects of localized activation as well as the effects of fatty tissue on muscle response. This is joint with Sebastian Dominguez, Hadi Rahemi, David Ryan and James Wakeling.