In the paper the results of different numerical solutions of bioheat transfer problems are presented. The base of numerical algorithms constitute the models containing the bioheat transfer equation (or equations) and the adequate geometrical, physical, boundary and initial conditions. In the first part of the paper the solutions concerning the transient temperature field in the biological tissue subjected to the strong external heat sources (freezing, burns) are presented. Next, the examples of sensitivity analysis application in the range of bioheat transfer are discussed. In the final part of the paper the inverse problems are formulated and the example concerning the identification of thermal parameters is shown.
In the chapter, problems connected with the numerical modeling of bioheat transfer processes are presented. In particular the non-homogeneous system of a burn wound and healthy tissue is considered. The heat exchange between sub-domains and environment is described by a system of partial differential equations (the Pennes equations) supplemented by adequate boundary conditions. The first goal of the research is the estimation of the changes of temperature fields due to perturbations in thermal parameters using the direct method of sensitivity analysis. Both the basic problem and additional ones concerning the sensitivity with respect to selected parameters are solved using the boundary element method. The second goal is the problem of burn wound shape identification. The additional information necessary to solve such a task results from the knowledge of temperature distribution on the external surface of skin tissue. At the stage of solving the inverse problem, a gradient method has been used. In the final part of the chapter the results of computations are shown.
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