Troy Shinbrot

Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Flow and Form

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a readable and attractively presented overview of fluid flow in biological systems. Examples include flow through blood vessels, pulsatile flow, and pattern formation. The book includes popular vignettes and historical anecdotes and it offers a first-principles introduction to modern mathematical methods needed to solve complex problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 191mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812586
• ISBN-10: 0198812582
• Artikelnr.: 53773661

Autorenporträt

Troy Shinbrot received his undergraduate degree from Reed College, and his PhD from the University of Maryland. His dissertation dealt with the control of chaos. After leaving Maryland, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University, where he has studied mixing, demixing, soft matter physics, as well as a smattering of topics in neuroscience, pharmaceutical engineering, and astrophysics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the founding editor of Physical Review Applied.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Fundamental Equations
2: Elastic Surfaces
3: Flows Through Elastic Tubes
4: Pulsatile Flows
5: Entrances, branches and bends
6: Shearing flows around cylinders and spheres
7: Intermezzo - effects of increasing Reynolds number
8: Inviscid flows
9: Rheology in complex fluids - 1
10: Rheology in complex fluids - 2
11: Statistical mechanics, diffusion and self-assembly
12: Diffusion
13: Self assembly and beyond