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Modelling and simulation

Modelling and simulation

How computational modelling is transforming medicine

15 Sep 2020 Samuel Vennin 
Taken from the September 2020 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "How modelling is transforming medicine".

Computational modelling has been brought under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, with scientists trying to predict how the SARS-CoV-2 virus will spread. But epidemiology is not the only medical field in which modelling is sparking breakthroughs, as Sam Vennin explains

Model for microcirculatory blood flow
(Courtesy: Paul Sweeney)
On 23 March 2020 UK prime minister Boris Johnson announced a lockdown to tackle the spread of corona

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Samuel Vennin is a contributor to Physics World. Samuel is an engineer working at the intersection between cardiovascular medicine and numerical modelling at St Thomas Hospital, London, UK, where he also obtained his PhD. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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