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FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF STRATUM CORNEUM'S PENETRATION PROPERTY

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    1. Biomechanics and Medical Information Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, P. R. China;
    2. Technical Simulation Group of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of University Heidelberg, Im neuen Heimerfeld 368, 69120, Germany

Received date: 2004-06-29

  Revised date: 2005-12-15

  Online published: 2006-04-18

Abstract

How the outer substance could penetrate through the skin lies in the stratum corneum, because it is the main barrier in the multi-layers of the skin. Supposing the keratin cell with a special geometry as tetrakaidecahedron, the penetration property of stratum corneum was the key problem which was numerically simulated with finite element method. At first the discretization of the stratum corneum region was given in two steps: first, the discretization of the keratin cell; second, the discretization of fattiness that surrounds the keratin. Then there was the work of numerical simulation. In this procedure, the finite element method and the multi-grid method were used. The former was to obtain the discretization of basic elements; the latter was to decrease the high frequency error. At last the visualization of the numerical simulation was shown.

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LIU Yu-hong;QIAO Ai-ke;Dirk Feuchter;Gabriel Wittum;ZENG Yan-jun . FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF STRATUM CORNEUM'S PENETRATION PROPERTY[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2006 , 27(4) : 469 -475 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-006-0406-y

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