Boundary integral formulation and semi-implicit scheme coupling for modeling cells under electrical stimulation (Q527819)

The authors are concerned with numerical solutions to an unsteady transmission problem for the Laplace operator with a dynamic boundary condition on a smooth interface (the temporal behavior of potential jumps across the membrane). They cast the original volume model, using the boundary multiple traces formulation for time dependent variables, into a system of integral equations. Then they solve it by a Galerkin method along with a semi-implicit second-order time-stepping and analyze the stability and convergence. Some numerical experiments for two-dimensional cells are carried out.