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Condensing 40 years of teaching experience, this unique textbook will provide students with an unrivalled understanding of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, and enable them to place that understanding firmly within a biological context. Each chapter introduces, explains, and expands a core concept in biofluid mechanics, establishing a firm theoretical framework for students to build upon in further study. Practical biofluid applications, clinical correlations, and worked examples throughout the book provide real-world scenarios to help students quickly master key theoretical topics. Examples are drawn from biology, medicine, and biotechnology with applications to normal function, disease, and devices, accompanied by over 500 figures to reinforce student understanding. Featuring over 120 multicomponent end-of-chapter problems, flexible teaching pathways to enable tailor-made course structures, and extensive Matlab and Maple code examples, this is the definitive textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying a biologically-grounded course in fluid mechanics.
List of contents
Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction to Biofluid Mechanics; 2. Scalings, Parameters, and Variables; 3. Kinematics, Lagrangian and Eulerian Variables; 4. Conservation of Mass; 5. Conservation of Momentum; 6. Constitutive Equations 1: Inviscid and Newtonian Viscous Fluids; 7. Steady Newtonian Viscous Flow; 8. Unsteady Newtonian Viscous Flow; 9. Flow in Flexible Tubes; 10. Constitutive Equations 2: Generalised Newtonian Fluids; 11. Lubrication Theory; 12. Laminar Boundary Layers; 13. Turbulence; 14. Constitutive Equations 3: Viscoelastic Fluids; 15. Porous Media; 16. Interfacial Phenomena; 17. Perturbation Methods; Index.
About the author
James B. Grotberg is a PhD and MD Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and a Professor in the Department of Surgery, at the University of Michigan, with many years of research, teaching and clinical experience focused on biofluid mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Summary
The definitive textbook for advanced students studying a biologically-grounded course in fluid mechanics, combining physical fundamentals with examples and applications drawn from real-world biological systems. Includes over 120 multicomponent end-of-chapter problems, Matlab® and Maple™ code, and flexible pathways for tailor-made courses.
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'The author has an M.D. as well as a Ph.D. and exemplifies every fundamental aspect of fluid mechanics with real physiological and clinical applications. Novel features are the display of MATLAB or Maple codes to derive numerical results and the realistic homework problem sets at the end of each chapter, in which the students are led through the elementary mathematical stages of the solution but must compute and plot the quantitative results for themselves. A refreshing approach to an increasingly important area of biomedical engineering, from which instructors as well as students will learn a lot.' Timothy Pedley, University of Cambridge
