BME-3032 – Biomedical Engineering Transport

Spring 2004, Class Meets: MW 2:40-3:55

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Instructor:                        Anthony McGoron

Office:                        EC 2671                        Phone:  348-1352

                        Office Hours 12:30-2:30 Tu-Wed-Th, or by appointment

email:                        Anthony.Mcgoron@fiu.edu

Textbook:                                Required

                                                Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems

                                                By: Truskey, Yuan and Katz

                                                Recommended

                                                Transport Phenomena

                                                By: William Thomson

                       

Course Description: Basic principles of heat, mass, and momentum (fluid) transport phenomena. Topics include elements of heat, mass, and momentum transfer in physical and physiological systems, pharmacokinetics and drug delivery, hemodialysis, clinical use of enzymes, separation of biological substances as well as modeling of physiological processes and artificial organs. Biotransport applications to artificial organs, and physiological systems modeling concentrating on cardiovascular hemodynamics. Design of the artificial lung, kidney, liver and pancreas. Computer models of transport phenomena using Matlab and Simulink. There will be 3 exams and 2 reports (20% each). Homework problems will be assigned throughout the semester but will not be graded.

 

Course Objectives: By the end of this course, students should:

1.      Understand the mechanisms of the transport process.

2.      Be able to apply advanced mathematics and physics to solving transport problems in both physiological and nonphysiological systems.

3.      Be able to derive the basic differential equations describing the transport phenomena laws.

4.      Formulate equations for the micro and marco analysis of transport problems.

5.      Be able to apply numerical techniques to solve transport problems.

6.      Be able to use the principles of transport phenomena in the design of artificial organs and devices.

7.      Learn to communicate ideas effectively through required class assignments.

 

Grading scale:  95-100 A; 90-94.9 A-; 86-89.9 B+; 82-85.9 B; 78-81.9 B-; 74-77.9 C+; 70-73.9 C; 66-69.9 C-; 62-65.9 D+; 58-51.9 D

 

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Turn off cell phones before entering class.


Points Distribution:               Project 1          20%

                                                Project 2          20%

                                                Exam 1                        20%

                                                Exam 2                        20%

                                                Exam 3 (final)                        20%

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Tentative Course Outline

 

Lecture Topic      

1                               Transport phenomena laws, differential balances and the conservation laws: (handout)

2                               Definition of transport processes: Sections 1.2-1.3

3                               Fluid kinetics: Section 2.2

4                               Conservations relations and BC’s -Fluid statics: Sections 2.3-2.4

5                               Constitutive relations-Laminar and turbulent flow: Sections 2.5-2.6

6                               Applications of momentum balances-Rheology and flow of blood: Sections 2.7-2.8

7                               Differential form of conservation of mass and momentum: Sections 3.2-3.3

8                               Fluid motion with more than one dependent variable: Section 3.4

9                               Solute fluxes in mixtures-conservations relations: Sections 6.2-6.3

10                           Steady-state and unsteady-state diffusion in one dimension: Sections 6.7-6.8

11                           Review

12                           Exam 1

13                           Fick’s law of diffusion and solute flux-dimensional analysis: Sections 7.1-7.2

14                           Electrolyte transport-Diffusion and convection: Section 7.4-7.5

15                           Macroscopic form of conservation relation-Mass transfer coefficients: Sections 7.6-7.7

16                           Mass transfer across membranes: Section 7.8

17                           Enzyme kinetics: Section 10.4

18                           Oxygen-hemoglobin equilibria and binding kinetics: Sections 13.2-13.3

19                           Dynamics of oxygenation of blood in lung-Oxygen delivery to tissue: Section 13.4-13.5

20                           Review

21                           Exam 2

22                           Mechanisms of transmembrane transport: Section 14.2

23                           Quantitative analysis of glomerular filtration: Section 14.4

24                           Quantitative analysis of tubular reabsorption: Section 14.5

25                           A whole organ approach to renal modeling: Section 14.6

26                           Pharmacokinetic analysis-Simple compartmental models: Sections 16.2-16.3

27                           Physiologically based pharmacokinetic models: Sections 16.4

28                           Review

29                           Final Exam