ESB Webinar Series - No. 16 - FreeFEM for computational biomedical engineering

Over the past few years, the open-source finite element solver FreeFEM has been extensively used in the computational biomechanics research unit (http://www.biomech.ulg.ac.be/) for a wide range of simulations and modeling studies in the field of computational biomedical engineering and in silico medicine. FreeFEM integration with a couple of powerful scientific computing tools and libraries, such as PETSc, Mmg, METIS, etc., allowed us to take advantage of this open-source domain-specific language efficiently in the development of multiple types of computational models. In this presentation, you will see how we used FreeFEM to model the biodegradation behavior of metallic biomaterials, neotissue growth process, bone fracture healing process, pancreatic cell viability, and topology optimization of biodegradable infilled structures.

During this webinar, attendees will learn about:

Difference between “finite element” in solid (bio)mechanics and mathematics
Finite element method for solving partial differential equations
FreeFEM as a finite element language for biomedical applications
FreeFEM and high-performance computing (HPC)

The webinar is conducted by Dr. Mojtaba Barzegari. Mojtaba Barzegari (https://mbarzegary.github.io) is a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Electrochemical Materials and Systems (EMS) at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His work at EMS is focused on building mathematical and high-performance computational models of electrochemical processes of energy storage systems. Before joining TU/e, he did his PhD at KU Leuven, Belgium, where he was working on computational modeling of tissue engineering processes and biomaterials biodegradation behavior. Mojtaba is a big fan of open-source and is running a YouTube channel (   / @tuxriders  ) to talk about open-source scientific computing and finite element modeling.