ABSTRACT
Computer modeling and simulation continue to grow more important to the field of Bioengineering. The reasons for this growing importance are manyfold. First, mathematical modeling has shown to be a substantial tool for the investigation of complex biophysical phenomena. Second, since the level of complexity one can model parallels existing hardware configurations, advances in computer architecture have made it feasible to apply the computational paradigm to complex biophysical systems. Hence, while biological complexity continues to outstrip the capabilities of even the largest computational systems, the computational methodology has taken hold in bioengineering and has been used successfully to suggest physiologically and clinically important scenarios and results.
