Introduction

Abstract

Volume 1 of this interdisciplinary series “Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems” aims at presenting cell types of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems as well as major cellular processes that regulate cell fate and can be modeled. These books are conceived with a modeling perspective rather than a purely biological approach. Modeling aims at better understanding, predicting, optimizing, controlling, as well as more easily testing the effects of involved parameter and visualizing. Most often, analytical solutions cannot be used. Numerical procedures are then employed, after basic mathematical and numerical analysis, to check stability and, when possible, solution unicity.