
Biofluid Mechanics
An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Macrocirculation, and Microcirculation
Description
Key Features
- Uses language and math that is appropriate and conducive for undergraduate and first-year graduate learning
- Contains new worked examples and end-of-chapter problems
- Covers topics in the traditional biofluids curriculum, also addressing other systems in the body
- Discusses clinical applications throughout the book, providing practical applications for the concepts discussed
- Includes more advanced topics to help instructors teach an undergraduate course without a loss of continuity in the class
Readership
Upper level undergraduate and graduate students in biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fluid Mechanics Basics
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
3. Conservation Laws
4. Introduction to Heat TransferPart 2: Macrocirculation
5. The Heart
6.Blood Flow in Arteries and VeinsPart 3: Microcirculation
7. Microvascular Beds
8. Mass Transport and Heat Transfer in the Microcirculation
9. The Lymphatic SystemPart 4: Specialty Circulations
10. Ventilation/Perfusion in the Lung
11. Intraocular Fluid Flow
12. Lubrication of Joints and Transport in Bone
13. Flow Through the Kidney
14. Splanchnic Circulation: Liver and SpleenPart 5: Modeling and Experimental Techniques
15. In silico Biofluid Mechanics
16. In vitro Biofluid Mechanics
17. In vivo Biofluid Mechanics
Product details
- No. of pages: 632
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: March 13, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128180358
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128180341