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Reis, Ruy Freitas; Loureiro, Felipe dos Santos; Lobosco, Marcelo, E-mail: ruyfreis@gmail.com, E-mail: felipe.loureiro@ufjf.edu.br, E-mail: marcelo.lobosco@ufjf.edu.br2015
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[en] Cancer is the second cause of death in the world so treatments have been developed trying to work around this world health problem. Hyperthermia is not a new technique, but its use in cancer treatment is still at early stage of development. This treatment is based on overheat the target area to a threshold temperature that causes cancerous cell necrosis and apoptosis. To simulate this phenomenon using magnetic nanoparticles in an under skin cancer treatment, a three-dimensional porous medium model was adopted. This study presents a sensibility analysis of the model parameters such as the porosity and blood velocity. To ensure a second-order solution approach, a 7-points centered finite difference method was used for space discretization while a predictor-corrector method was used to time evolution. Due to the massive computations required to find the solution of a three-dimensional model, this paper also presents a first attempt to improve performance using OpenMP, a parallel programming API. (paper)
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IC-MSquare2015: 4. international conference on mathematical modeling in physical sciences; Mykonos (Greece); 5-8 Jun 2015; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/633/1/012087; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online); ISSN 1742-6596;
; v. 633(1); [4 p.]

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