BME 4410 - Biofluid Mechanics

(crosslisted) MAE 4650

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: ENGRD 2020 and ENGRD 2202 or MAE 3230 or equivalents, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with BME 5410/MAE 5650.

K. Lewis.

The transport of energy, mass, and momentum is essential to the function of living systems. Changes in these processes often underlie pathological conditions. This course covers the understanding and analysis of micro-macroscopic fluid flow phenomena within the human body and the relation between fluid flow and physiological processes. The topics covered in this course span from cellular level to organs under healthy and diseased conditions.

Outcome 1: Introduce and practice the use of the fundamental engineering principles and mathematical basis of fluid mechanics in human body.

Outcome 2: Enable the students to identify the fluid flow and transport in human body, and to formulate the governing conservation equations, and solve basic engineering biofluidic problems.

Outcome 3: Understand and correctly identify modeling assumptions used to solve various biofluidic problems.

Outcome 4: Enable the students to analyze if Biofluid mechanics is a cause or an outcome of a disease and where the analysis might involve approximations and empirical approaches; for example, arterial flows and boundary layer flows.

Outcome 5: Encourage students to formulate an ordered approach to problem solving towards designing an alternative system to circumvent disease.

Outcome 6: Integrate and interpret biological data and mechanical engineering concepts.