Charles S. Peskin

About

My research is concerned with mathematical modeling and computer simulation for problems arising in biology and medicine. My principal research effort, beginning in my Ph.D. thesis, has been the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart with particular emphasis on the heart valves. From this work has emerged an original computational method for fluid-structure interaction that is now called the 'immersed boundary method'. A large part of my current work involves the further development of this methodology and its application to diverse challenges, including a stochastic version for microscopic problems, biomolecular motors, and an immersed boundary method for the bidomain equations of cardiac electrophysiology. I am also interested in modeling electrodiffusion to study the role of 3

Education

• Ph.D., Physiology, Yeshiva University, USA, 1972
• A.B., Engineering & Applied Physics, Harvard University, USA, 1968

Selected publications

• C.S. Peskin and D.M. McQueen, 'Mechanical equilibrium determines the fractal fiber architecture of the aortic heart valve leaflets', American Journal of Physiology 266, H319-H328 (1994)
• C.S. Peskin, 'The immersed boundary method', Acta Numerica 11, 479-517 (2002)
• B.E. Griffith and C.S. Peskin, 'Electrophysiology', Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 66, no. 12, 1837-1913 (2013)