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Add muscle tutorial #471

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This would be a potential OpenDiHu tutorial. It has one muscle and three tendons (thus multi-coupling). We have the 4 participans running in OpenDiHu. Potentially, the tendon participants could also run in deal.ii.

Note that it contains no volume coupling.

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MakisH commented Feb 28, 2024

My suggestion here regarding the distribution release: Let's aim to merge this before the distribution, as it would help citing and starting a userbase/contributing community for OpenDiHu. We anyway plan to maintain this.

For the code itself, let's not rush it.

Since this is the first tutorial of this kind, I would like to do a sanity check as well.

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I went ahead and fixed most of the linting issues and some other common requirements for tutorials. In terms of general structure, it looks good.

I have not tried to run it. I will once you tell me it is ready.

I have not reviewed the code of the solvers, as I lack the expertise. I trust that they have been validated elsewhere.

See a few more suggestions and questions to continue.

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See #477 and restrict this to the difference (let's better wait until it is merged).
Are all of these files generated with the default instructions, or are some rules only as "just in case"?

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Sorry I don't understand. Which default instructions are you referring to?

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Sorry, I meant "are all these rules to ignore files that will actually be generated when I try to run the tutorial?".

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yes! Some when building and some when running


The muscle and tendon meshes are obtained from patient imaging. The interfaces of the tendons and the muscle do not perfectly match, which is a quite common issue due to the limitations of imaging methods and postprocessing tools. Nonetheless, preCICE coupling methods are robust and can handle meshes that do not perfectly match.

TODO: Explain how is the muscle activated!
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Isn't this already covered later on by the following?

The electrical signal triggers chemical reactions which lead to the contraction of sarcomeres, the smallest contraction unit in the muscle.

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I tried to make it clear in a new commit.

muscle-tendon-complex/README.md Outdated Show resolved Hide resolved
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end_time = 1000.0 # [ms] end time of the simulation
# [ms^-1] sampling frequency of stimuli in firing_times_file, in stimulations per ms, number before 1e-3 factor is in Hertz.
stimulation_frequency = 100 * 1e-3
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Long comments have been moved to new lines, as a result of the aggressive option (I think) of the autopep8 and the column limit (120). Consider shortening or splitting some of these comments.

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Just for review purposes, this is how this config looks like:

precice-config


- Download input files for OpenDiHu

OpenDiHu requires input files hosted in [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/4705982) which include CellML files (containing model equations) and mesh files. Downloading these files is necessary to simulate muscles and/or tendons with OpenDiHu. You can [directly download the necessary files](https://zenodo.org/record/4705982/files/input.tgz?download=1). Extract the files and place them in the `opendihu/examples/electrophysiology/` directory.
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Do they really need to be downloaded into the opendihu source directory? What if that is a system directory? What if it is generally a frozen installation?

Can we move these to a local path, or to an OPENDIHU_EXAMPLES directory?

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I'm not sure I understand your point.
Would path/to/opendihu/examples/electrophysiology/ be better?
Or OPENDIHU_HOME/examples/electrophysiology/.

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No, I mean that it is strange to first get OpenDiHu (imagine in the future a sudo apt install opendihu) and then copy the examples into the installation directory (similarly to sudo apt install opendihu-examples).

What I suggest is to decouple them from the actual installation (for the tutorial) and be able to use them from any directory.

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mmh I think you mean the input files and not the examples. The input files are downloaded separately because they are 1.5 GB and thus too big for GitHub.
Alternatives I see instead of moving the downloaded files are

  • option 1: user has to define OPENDIHU_INPUT_DIR
# input files
# -----------
import os
input_dir = os.environ.get('OPENDIHU_INPUT_DIR')
fiber_file = input_dir + "/left_biceps_brachii_9x9fibers.bin"
  • option 2: user has to edit variables.py
# input files
# -----------
input_dir = path/to/input
fiber_file = input_dir + "/left_biceps_brachii_9x9fibers.bin"

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I think that option 2 is more intuitive for the user, while option 1 is better for scripting/automation.

Anything is fine, as long as this path if configurable.

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okay, I decided for option 2, because I think this is something I could generally do in OpenDiHu.

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Side-effect of having configuration files in Python script format (see opendihu/opendihu#44): How can I know if all variable names exist / are defined / are not misspelled / are needed?

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Fair point, at the moment there's no way to check that.

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- Setup `$OPENDIHU_HOME` to your `.bashrc` file
- Setup `$OPENDIHU_HOME` and `$OPENDIHU_INPUT_DIR` in your `.bashrc` file
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Just a general terminology thing: When I see "input files", I understand configuration files for a specific simulation. How do these differ that the files included in this repository?

If they are specific to this tutorial, they could also be downloaded directly into this directory (and specified in the .gitignore).

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What in opendihu we call input file are not what I understand as configuration files. They are files that specify meshes, i.e., geometry, and cellml models, i.e., equations. In the configuration files (the ones included in the tutorial, we give the parameters and user settings to use this files.

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