Bioprocessing Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering Third Edition Ronald L. Fournier University of Toledo, USA
Encompassing a variety of engineering disciplines and life sciences, the very scope and breadth of biomedical engineering presents challenges to creating a concise, entry level text that effectively introduces basic concepts without getting overly specialized in subject matter or rarified in language. Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering, Third Edition meets and overcomes these challenges to provide readers with the foundational tools and the confidence they need to apply these techniques to problems of ever greater complexity. Bringing together fundamental engineering and life science principles, this highly accessible text provides a focused coverage of key momentum and mass transport concepts in biomedical engineering. It offers a basic review of units and dimensions, material balances, and problem solving tips, and then emphasizes those chemical and physical transport processes that have applications in the development of artificial and bioartificial organs, controlled drug delivery systems, and tissue engineering. The book also includes a discussion of thermodynamic concepts and covers topics such as body fluids, osmosis and membrane filtration, physical and flow properties of blood, solute and oxygen transport, and pharmacokinetic analysis. It concludes with the application of these principles to extracorporeal devices as well as tissue engineering and bioartificial organs. Written in a style friendly to all readers, this text provides a quantitative understanding of the underlying physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the topic. Features: • Provides an introductory level text for students in bioengineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and the life sciences • Presents a basic understanding and the theories of transport in biological systems and then builds on this knowledge base to show real-world applications in the development and design of artificial organs, drug delivery systems, and tissue engineering • Includes numerous examples with a discussion of the numerical methods used to solve the problems • Contains an extensive bibliography of the research literature that supports the material in the text • Supplies illustrations with problems at the end of each chapter that provide readers the opportunity to explore in greater detail the material covered in each chapter Solutions manual available upon qualifying course adoption
Contents: Introduction A Review of Thermodynamic Concepts Physical Properties of the Body Fluids and the Cell Membrane The Physical and Flow Properties of Blood Solute Transport in Biological Systems Oxygen Transport in Biological Systems Pharmacokinetic Analysis Extracorporeal Devices Tissue Engineering Bioartificial Organs References Index
Catalog no. K11304, August 2011, 483 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-2670-6, $89.95 / £44.99 Also available as an eBook
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