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This textbook is a unique resource that demonstrates how engineering principles can be applied to solve medical challenges. It offers a toolkit on how to model heat, mass transfer, and fluid dynamics in the human body. The book discusses numerical solutions for physiological processes related to cryosurgery, hyperthermia, thermal regulation of the human body, thermal and fluid dynamics in coronary stents, magneto-hydrodynamics in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and cardiac acoustics. The book looks at physiological mechanisms that can be classified as Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids and clarifies how to leverage the Navier-Stokes equations, the first and second principles of thermodynamics, Fick's law, and non-Newtonian principles to model them.
This book is aimed at students and researchers interested in pursuing engineering studies with a focus on solving medical questions. Drawing from the editor’s 50 years’ experience and knowledge gained in medical engineering, this book provides a practical and comprehensive approach to study thermo-haemo-dynamics in the human body. It clarifies how to model the described physiological process through worked examples and providing the equations behind the models.
List of contents
Introduction.- Cryosurgery: Prediction of the freezing front penetration and of the lesion produced in the tissue.- Microwave heating and medical hyperthermia.- Human Body Thermoregulation.- Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) in coronary stents: Numerical Newtonian Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) in coronary stents.- Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) in coronary stents: Numerical Non-Newtonian Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) in coronary stents.- Hydraulic circuit design for the study of vascular problems.- Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD): Bases of Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Numerical Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD)- .- Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD): Numerical Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD) in respiratory airways.- Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD): Numerical Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics (THD) and Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (MHD) in the Hepatic artery.- Cardiac Acoustics: Basics of acoustics for the evaluation of environmental and fluid dynamic noise.- Cardiac Acoustics: Acoustics in Cardiac Thermo-Haemo-Dynamics.
About the author
Fabio Gori (Fabio Gori Ammannati from 2021) is Professor of Technical Physics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. For over five decades, he has been teaching and mentoring hundreds of engineering students in several branches of Engineering, as Chemical, Civil, Electronics, Energy, Informatics, Management, Mechanical, and Medical, as well as in Architecture, during their bachelor, masters, and PhD studies. His teaching career spans several Institutions, including the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Siena, Reggio Calabria and the Polytechnic of Milan, in Italy. He was Professor at the University of New York at Stony Brook and Visiting Professor at Imperial College in London and Cornell University, Minnesota and Chicago in the USA. His work specializes in heat transfer and thermofluid dynamics, focusing on both laminar and turbulent flows as well as thermo-haemo-dynamics of physiological processes in Medical Engineering.
Summary
This textbook is a unique resource that demonstrates how engineering principles can be applied to solve medical challenges. It offers a toolkit on how to model heat, mass transfer, and fluid dynamics in the human body. The book discusses numerical solutions for physiological processes related to cryosurgery, hyperthermia, thermal regulation of the human body, thermal and fluid dynamics in coronary stents, magneto-hydrodynamics in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and cardiac acoustics. The book looks at physiological mechanisms that can be classified as Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids and clarifies how to leverage the Navier-Stokes equations, the first and second principles of thermodynamics, Fick's law, and non-Newtonian principles to model them.
This book is aimed at students and researchers interested in pursuing engineering studies with a focus on solving medical questions. Drawing from the editor’s 50 years’ experience and knowledge gained in medical engineering, this book provides a practical and comprehensive approach to study thermo-haemo-dynamics in the human body. It clarifies how to model the described physiological process through worked examples and providing the equations behind the models.
