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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Science and Innovations in Medicine</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Science and Innovations in Medicine</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наука и инновации в медицине</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2500-1388</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2618-754X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">FSBEI of Higher Education SamSMU of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">110748</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.35693/2500-1388-2022-7-3-179-185</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Medical Informatics</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Медицинская информатика</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Estimation of the postmortem interval by the method of finite element modeling of postmortem heat transfer in human head</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Оценка давности наступления смерти методом конечно-элементного моделирования посмертного теплообмена головы</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7380-3766</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Nedugov</surname><given-names>German V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Недугов</surname><given-names>Г. В.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD, Associate professor of the Department of forensic medicine</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>д-р мед. наук, доцент кафедры судебной медицины</p></bio><email>nedugovh@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Samara State Medical University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">ФГБОУ ВО «Самарский государственный медицинский университет» Минздрава России</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-04" publication-format="electronic"><day>04</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>179</fpage><lpage>185</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-09-03"><day>03</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-09-03"><day>03</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Nedugov G.V.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Недугов Г.В.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Nedugov G.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Недугов Г.В.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://innoscience.ru/2500-1388/article/view/110748">https://innoscience.ru/2500-1388/article/view/110748</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p><bold>Aim</bold> – to develop a two-dimensional finite element model (FEM) of postmortem heat transfer in head to determine the postmortem interval (PMI).</p> <p><bold>Material and methods.</bold> The finite element modeling of the geometry and postmortem heat transfer in an adult's head was carried out using the ELCUT 6.5 Student application. A hemisphere with a radius of 98 mm was used as a geometric model of the cerebral part of the head, consisting of evenly distributed homogeneous layers: the scalp, the bones, the cerebrospinal fluid of the subarachnoid space and the brain. For FEM validation we used the evaluation of the cooling curves convergence obtained by FEM and by the Marshall – Hoare and Newton – Richman cooling laws under conditions of constant and linearly varying ambient temperature.</p> <p><bold>Results. </bold>A scalable two-dimensional FEM for finding the postmortem temperature field of the head was developed. The model allows for accounting any changes in the ambient temperature, combined heat exchange conditions and the dependence of thermophysical parameters of biological tissues on the ambient temperature. The FEM check-out under standard cooling conditions showed the maximum convergence of the results of finding the postmortem temperature field with the results of valid phenomenological mathematical models when only convective heat exchange with a heat transfer coefficient equal to 6 W/(м<sup>2</sup>·К) was set on the outer edge. The developed FEM is characterized by the stability of the results of determining the prescription of death coming to deviations of the initial temperature field of the calculated region from its physiological level.</p> <p><bold>Conclusion.</bold> It is advisable to use the proposed FEM in the forensic medical expert practice when determining the prescription of death coming.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p><bold>Цель </bold>– разработка двумерной конечно-элементной модели (КЭМ) посмертного теплообмена головы, предназначенной для определения давности наступления смерти (ДНС).</p> <p><bold>Материал и методы.</bold> С помощью приложения ELCUT 6.5 Student произведено конечно-элементное моделирование геометрии и посмертного теплообмена головы взрослого человека. В качестве геометрической модели мозгового отдела головы использовали полусферу с радиусом 98 мм, состоящую из равномерно распределенных однородных слоев: кожно-апоневротического лоскута, костей свода черепа, ликвора субарахноидального пространства и головного мозга. Валидация КЭМ осуществлялась путем оценки сходимости кривых охлаждения, полученных с помощью КЭМ и на основе законов охлаждения Marshall – Hoare и Ньютона – Рихмана в условиях постоянной и линейно изменяющейся внешней температуры.</p> <p><bold>Результаты. </bold>Разработана масштабируемая двумерная КЭМ нахождения посмертного температурного поля головы. Она позволяет учитывать любые изменения внешней температуры, комбинированные условия теплообмена и зависимость теплофизических параметров биотканей от температуры внешней среды. Отладка КЭМ в стандартных условиях охлаждения показала максимальную сходимость результатов нахождения посмертного температурного поля с результатами валидных феноменологических математических моделей при задании на внешнем ребре только конвективного теплообмена с коэффициентом теплоотдачи, равным 6 Вт/(м<sup>2</sup>·К). Разработанная КЭМ характеризуется устойчивостью результатов определения ДНС к отклонениям начального температурного поля расчетной области от своего физиологического уровня.</p> <p><bold>Выводы. </bold>Предложенную КЭМ целесообразно использовать в экспертной практике при определении давности наступления смерти.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>corpse cooling</kwd><kwd>postmortem interval</kwd><kwd>mathematical modeling</kwd><kwd>finite element method</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>охлаждение трупа</kwd><kwd>давность наступления смерти</kwd><kwd>математическое моделирование</kwd><kwd>метод конечных элементов</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Potente S, Henneicke L, Schmidt P. Prism - A novel approach to dead body cooling and its parameters. 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