Fundamentals of biomedical transport processes
By: Miller, Gerald E.
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BookSeries: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science: ; Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering: # 37.Publisher: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2010Description: 1 electronic text (xii, 63 p. : ill.) : digital file.ISBN: 9781598298673 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Biological transport | Biomedical engineering | biomedical mass transfer | biomedical fluid mechanics | biomedical heat transport | dialysis | biomedical flow | pressure measurementDDC classification: 574.875 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 61).
1. Biomedical mass transport -- Analysis of respiration and gas transport -- Membranes, pores and diffusion -- Mass transport in systemic capillaries -- Mass transport in the kidneys and dialysis --
2. Biofluid mechanics and momentum transport -- Blood and fluid viscosity -- Conservation of mass -- Fluid momentum, the equations of motion, and the Navier-Stokes equations -- Poiseuille flow -- Boundary layers -- Reynolds number and types of fluid flow -- Blood pressure measurement --
3. Biomedical heat transport -- Conduction, convection, and radiation, the types of heat transfer -- Thermal conduction -- Thermal convection -- Heat exchangers -- Thermal radiation -- Greenhouse effect -- Heat loss via respiration -- Heat loss inside the body -- Heat loss in extreme environments --
Bibliography -- Author's biography.
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Transport processes represents important life sustaining elements in all humans. These include mass transfer processes, including gas exchange in the lungs, transport across capillaries and alveoli, transport across the kidneys, and transport across cell membranes. These mass transfer processes affect how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in your bloodstream, how metabolic waste products are removed from your blood, how nutrients are transported to tissues, and how all cells function throughout the body. A discussion of kidney dialysis and gas exchange mechanisms is included. Another element in biomedical transport processes is that of momentum transport and fluid flow.This describes how blood is propelled from the heart and throughout the cardiovascular system, how blood elements affect the body, including gas exchange, infection control, clotting of blood, and blood flow resistance, which affects cardiac work.A discussion of the measurement of the blood resistance to flow (viscosity), blood flow, and pressure is also included. A third element in transport processes in the human body is that of heat transfer, including heat transfer inside the body towards the periphery as well as heat transfer from the body to the environment. A discussion of temperature measurements and body protection in extreme heat conditions is also included.
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