Figure 1

Geometric meshes. Simple geometric representations of an intestine composed of a straight and curved section. The 1D mesh consists of two sets of cell types occupying the same physical space and is represented by 16 cubic Hermite elements. The 3D model is a thin walled cylinder and is represented by a total of 1024 tricubic Hermite elements and contains three layers of different cell types (see Figure 2). The meshs are orientated such that the Y-axis runs vertically and Z-axis horizontally.