Main description:

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes covers emerging areas in fluid flow and heat transfer relevant to biosystems and medical technology. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive prospective on biofluid mechanics and heat transfer advances and includes reviews of the most recent methods in modeling of flows in biological media, such as CFD. Written by internationally recognized researchers in the field, each chapter provides a strong introductory section that is useful to both readers currently in the field and readers interested in learning more about these areas.

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes is an indispensable reference for professors, graduate students, professionals, and clinical researchers in the fields of biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry and medicine working on applications of fluid flow, heat transfer, and transport phenomena in biomedical technology.

Contents:

1. Bioheat transfer and thermal heating for tumor treatment 2. Tissue Response to Ultra-Short Laser Irradiation 3. Quantitative Models of Thermal Damage to Cells and Tissues 4. Solutions to the Transient Bioheat Equation 5. Characterizing Respiratory Airflow and Aerosol Condensational Growth in Children and Adults Using CT/MRI Imaging and Computational Methods 6. Transport in Microbiological Environments 7. Modeling of the leftward flow and morphogen transport in the embryonic node 8. Multiscale modeling of fluid-biofilm interactions in pore networks 9. Flow through permeable tubes 10. Transdermal Drug Delivery 11. Roles of fluid dynamics in cardiovascular devices 12. Modelling of blood flow in coronary stented arteries 13. Hemodynamics in the developing cardiovascular system 14. Mechanical stress induced blood trauma