BENG 325: Thermofluid for Bioengineering

Course Description

This course is an introduction into mass and heat transport phenomena in biomedical systems. Basic mechanisms of fluid flow, heat transfer, and diffusion are presented and applied to biological objects (cells, tissues, organisms) and biomedical devices. Topics include mass, momentum, and energy conservation laws, physical properties of common and biological fluids, elements of fluid statics, control volume analysis, basics of fluid mechanics, conduction and convection heat transfer, diffusion, applications to hyper- and hypothermia, thermal ablation, and cryopreservation, basics of mass and heat transfer in the body. (YR).