Applied Biofluid
Mechanics
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Applied Biofluid
Mechanics
Lee Waite, Ph.D., P.E.
Jerry Fine, Ph.D.
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DOI: 10.1036/0071472177
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LEE WAITE, PH.D., P.E., is Head of the Department of
Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, and Director
of the Guidant/Eli Lilly and Co. Applied Life Sciences
Research Center, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in
Terre Haute, Indiana. He is also the author of Biofluid
Mechanics in Cardiovascular Systems, published by
McGraw-Hill.
JERRY FINE, PH.D., is Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Before he joined the faculty at Rose, Dr. Fine served as
a patrol plane pilot in the U.S. Navy and taught at the
U.S. Naval Academy.
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1. Review of Basic Fluid Mechanics Concepts
1.1 A Brief History of Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
1.2 Fluid Characteristics and Viscosity
1.2.1 Displacement and velocity
1.2.2 Shear stress and viscosity
1.2.3 Example problem: shear stress
1.2.4 Viscosity
1.2.5 Clinical feature: polycythemia
1.3 Fundamental Method for Measuring Viscosity
1.3.1 Example problem: viscosity measurement
1.4 Introduction to Pipe Flow
1.4.1 Reynolds number
1.4.2 Example problem: Reynolds number
1.4.3 Poiseuille’s law
1.4.4 Flow rate
1.5 Bernoulli Equation
1.6 Conservation of Mass
1.6.1 Venturi meter example
1.7 Fluid Statics
1.7.1 Example problem: fluid statics
1.8 The Womersley Number α: A Frequency Parameter for Pulsatile Flow
1.8.1 Example problem: Womersley number
Problems
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Chapter 2. Cardiovascular Structure and Function
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Clinical Features
2.3 Functional Anatomy
2.4 The Heart as a Pump
2.5 Cardiac Muscle
2.5.1 Biopotential in myocardium
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