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This is a readable and attractively presented overview of fluid flow in biological systems. Examples include flow through blood vessels, pulsatile flow, and pattern formation. The book includes popular vignettes and historical anecdotes and it offers a first-principles introduction to modern mathematical methods needed to solve complex problems.
List of contents
- 1: Fundamental Equations
- 2: Elastic Surfaces
- 3: Flows Through Elastic Tubes
- 4: Pulsatile Flows
- 5: Entrances, branches and bends
- 6: Shearing flows around cylinders and spheres
- 7: Intermezzo - effects of increasing Reynolds number
- 8: Inviscid flows
- 9: Rheology in complex fluids - 1
- 10: Rheology in complex fluids - 2
- 11: Statistical mechanics, diffusion and self-assembly
- 12: Diffusion
- 13: Self assembly and beyond
About the author
Troy Shinbrot received his undergraduate degree from Reed College, and his PhD from the University of Maryland. His dissertation dealt with the control of chaos. After leaving Maryland, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University, where he has studied mixing, demixing, soft matter physics, as well as a smattering of topics in neuroscience, pharmaceutical engineering, and astrophysics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the founding editor of Physical Review Applied.
Summary
This is a readable and attractively presented overview of fluid flow in biological systems. Examples include flow through blood vessels, pulsatile flow, and pattern formation. The book includes popular vignettes and historical anecdotes and it offers a first-principles introduction to modern mathematical methods needed to solve complex problems.
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This book is an impressive collection of the fluid flow in biological systems. At the same time it is a readable and attractively presented graduate textbook for biomedical engineersthe book represents a model of an interdisciplinary approach. This book is an attempt to maintain our roots in past investigations, while giving us wings to explores future ones.
