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BME 343

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Biotransport

Biomedical Engineering (Program)Engineering and Science

Course Description

Transport principles with biological applications. Course covers hydrostatics and consequent blood pressure variation throughout the circulatory system; Starling resistors, as a model of vascular flow; surface tension and its effect on lung mechanics; the Reynold’s transport theorem; conservation of mass and equations of motion for fluids, such as vascular blood and air in the lungs; and diffusive transport, responsible for solute movement across the endothelium.

Credits

3

Periods Typically Offered

Spring Semester