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BME 478-0-01: Transport Fundamentals


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Description

Mini-Syllabus

  • Math review; Reynolds Transport Theorem
  • Reynolds Transport Theorem/ Example
  • Derivation of Navier-Stokes 4/10 Thur Viscous Flow
  • Recitation #1
  • Viscous Flow
  • Lubrication Flow/Stokes Flow
  • Surface Tension Driven Flow
  • Flow Instability and Capillary Breakup
  • Recitation #3 5/6 Tues Diffusion 1
  • Diffusion 2 5/13 Tues Taylor Dispersion
  • Tensorial Diffusion and MRI
  • Transport through Porous Media 1
  • Transport through Porous Media 2
  • Recitation #4 5/27 Tues Biphasic Media
  • Flow in collapsible tubes 6/2 Fri Blood flow in small vessels
  • Blood flow in capillaries
  • Non-Newtonian Fluids

Textbooks

  1. Johnson and Ethier, Problems in Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena, Cambridge University Press.
  2. Truskey, Yuan, and Katz, Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems, Second Edition, Pearson Education, Inc.