Parallel Heat Transfer Computation
in Heart Surgery
Roman Trobec,
Bostjan Slivnik
Dept. of Digital Communications and Networks
Jozef Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana,
Slovenia
and
Borut Gersak,
Tone Gabrijelcic
Dept. of Cardivascular Surgery
Medical Center
Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Abstract
The following collection of WWW pages describes the project of the
heat transfer computation in heart surgery. For succesfull medical
operations on the human heart, the heart beating must be stoped by
lowering the cardiac metabolism. This is achieved by topical cooling
of the heart. Several methods of topical cooling are currently in use
and there is a number of questions about these methods yet to be
answered.
The goal of these project is to provide by means of computer modelling and simulation some experimental data needed
for answering those questions. Due to the demanded precision of the
model, the modelling and simulation must be performed on parallel
computers.
These project is a part of CEI/PACT project, workpackage 5.3.