Full Description
Designed for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students in biomedical engineering, Biofluid Mechanics: The Human Circulation, Second Edition teaches students how fluid mechanics is applied to the study of the human circulatory system. Reflecting changes in the field since the publication of its predecessor, this second edition has been extensively revised and updated.
New to the Second Edition
Improved figures and additional examples
More problems at the end of each chapter
A chapter on the computational fluid dynamic analysis of the human circulation, which reflects the rapidly increasing use of computational simulations in research and clinical arenas
Drawing on each author's experience teaching courses on cardiovascular fluid mechanics, the book begins with introductory material on fluid and solid mechanics as well as a review of cardiovascular physiology pertinent to the topics covered in subsequent chapters. The authors then discuss fluid mechanics in the human circulation, primarily applied to blood flow at the arterial level. They also cover vascular implants and measurements in the cardiovascular system.
Contents
FLUID AND SOLID MECHANICS AND CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. Introduction to Solid Mechanics. Cardiovascular Physiology. BIOMECHANICS OF THE HUMAN CIRCULATION: Rheology of Blood and Vascular Mechanics. Static and Steady Flow Models. Unsteady Flow and Nonuniform Geometric Models. Native Heart Valves. CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTS, BIOMECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS, AND COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS: Prosthetic Heart Valve Dynamics. Vascular Therapeutic Techniques. Fluid Dynamic Measurement Techniques. Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of the Human Circulation. Index.
