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Title Mathematical Models related to Muscles and Biomechanics

Name Thomas Goetz
Country Germany
Email goetz@uni-koblenz.de
Co-Author(s) Robert Rockenfeller
Submit Time 2014-02-27 03:06:40
Session
Special Session 32: Applied analysis and dynamics in engineering and sciences
Contents
We will present models describing the activation and action of muscles in the human body. Nonlinear systems of differential equations relate the electrical stimulation of the muscle to its motion. These -often heuristic- models typically contain several phenomenological parameters, whose values vary widely throughout literature. To quantify the influence of the parameters, a sensitivity analysis is carried out and we present numerical results compared to available experimental data.