A solid volumetric deformable muscle model for computer animation using weighted residual method (Q1595363)

By constructing the title model, the authors assume that the muscles are of elastic isotropic material. They propose some trial functions which satisfy the deformation compatibility and equilibrium equations. Using the least squares technique, the authors obtain the residual values on boundaries and minimize them to determine the unknown constants in trial functions. In order to validate the model, the numerical results produced by the model are compared with finite element results. The authors claim that the model is almost as accurate as the finite element analysis, but requires only a fraction of the computing costs.