Courses of Study 2021-2022 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BME 5410 - Biofluid Mechanics

(crosslisted) MAE 5650  
     
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: ENGRD 2020  and ENGRD 2202  or MAE 3230  or equivalents, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with BME 4410 /MAE 4650 . Students will complete a design project.

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.



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