Bio-fluid Mechanics

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This course is a core course for biomedical engineering undergraduates. This course introduces students to basic understanding and analysis of macro and microscopic phenomena of fluid mechanics with special emphasis on applications of fluid mechanics to biomedical systems. Fluid flows in biomedical systems mediate the transport of energy, mass and momentum, which is essential to the function of living systems. Perturbations in these processes often underlie disease development. Course topics expand from from the basic properties of fluids, the physics of fluid flow, to cardiovascular fluid mechanics, pulmonary gas exchange, and renal blood flow and sodium transport. Prerequisites: PHYS 131 , MATH 227, BME 318.