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Apr 25, 2024
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BE 3515 - Bio-thermal-fluid Transport II4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This is the second of a two-part series of courses in bio-thermal fluid transport. Specific topics that are covered include biofluid mechanics and phenomena; mass transfer topics including membrane transport and gas exchangers; and heat transfer topics including steady and unsteady conduction, convection, heat exchanger design, and cooling of electronics. (prereq:TBD)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Differentiate between laminar and turbulent flows and describe where each is encountered in the human body
- Apply the concept of flow resistance to solve pipe network problems
- Define the different types of forces that fluid flow imparts on solid bodies and use correlations to estimate these forces for common geometries
- Describe the rheological properties of blood
- Set up classic and biomedical engineering problems using the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations and solve simple cases
- Set up classic and biomedical engineering problems using differential mass and energy balances and solve simple cases
- Apply constitutive relations related to mass diffusion and heat conduction
- Solve simple problems involving conductive heat transfer
- Solve simple problems involving convective heat transfer
- Design heat and mass exchangers to meet specified requirements
Prerequisites by Topic
- Thermodynamics
- College level Newtonian physics for engineers
- Calculus through ordinary differential equations
Course Topics
- Properties of blood
- Flow in pipes and tubes
- The continuity equation
- Application of the Navier-Stokes equations
- Differential component mass balance
- Mechanisms of heat transfer
- Differential energy balance
- Steady heat conduction
- Lumped system transient heat conduction
- Forced convection
- Heat and mass exchangers
Coordinator
Jeffrey LaMack
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