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BE 3515 - Bio-thermal-fluid Transport II

4 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: MA 235 BE 2200  and BE 3500 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Describe the rheology of blood and identify factors that affects its rheological behavior
  • Use the overall momentum balance to relate pressures, velocities and external forces associated with control volumes
  • Differentiate between laminar and turbulent flows and describe where each is encountered in the human body
  • Analyze systems involving major and minor losses using the mechanical energy balance
  • Evaluate different pump and flow measurement options for different flow system scenarios
  • Set up classic and biomedical engineering problems using the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations and solve for flow fields in simple cases
  • Define the different types of forces that fluid flow imparts on solid bodies and use correlations to estimate these forces for common geometries for different Reynolds numbers
  • Relate fluid resistance, compliance and inertance to characteristics of dynamic fluid systems
  • Set up classic and biomedical engineering problems using differential mass and energy balances and solve for concentration and temperature fields for simple cases
  • Apply constitutive relations related to mass diffusion and heat conduction
  • Solve problems with simple geometry involving steady and unsteady heat conduction
  • Solve simple problems involving convective heat transfer
  • Analyze and assess different methods of cooling electronics
  • Design heat and mass exchangers to meet specified requirements

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Multivariate integration, partial derivatives, solution of simple differential equations
  • Composing computer programs using MATLAB, implementation of functions
  • Definition of pressure, basic principles of fluid mechanics, applying mechanical energy balance

Course Topics
  • Properties of blood and cardiovascular flow
  • Integral momentum balance
  • Analysis of internal flows
  • Principles of operation of pumps and flow measurement approaches
  • Introduction to differential analysis and the continuity equation
  • Differential linear momentum balance and the Navier-Stokes equations and applications
  • External flows
  • Dynamic fluid system behavior
  • Differential component mass balance and membrane transport
  • Mechanisms of heat transfer
  • Differential energy balance
  • Steady heat conduction
  • Transient heat conduction
  • Forced convection
  • Natural convection
  • Cooling of electronics
  • Analysis and design of heat and mass exchangers

Coordinator
Jeffrey LaMack



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