Course Topics:
- Introduction and definitions of thermodynamic properties
- First
and Second Law of thermodynamics-closed system
- Biological
Applications: Thermoregulation, cardiac muscle efficiency
- Properties
of gas mixtures
- Material and Mass Balances
- Biological Applications: Lung
gas exchange, Measurement of Cardiac output (Indicator
Dilution Techniques)
- First and Second Law of thermodynamics for open systems-Analysis
of Control
volumes
- Biological Applications: Blood warmers (heat exchangers)
- Thermodynamic
relationships-Maxwell equations
- Thermochemistry: First and
second law thermodynamics in reacting systems
- Biological Applications:
Energy storage and conversion in cells
- Availability and Irreversibility
- Chemical and phase equilibrium
- Biological Applications: Cell
membrane potentials, osmosiS
- Fourier’s law of heat conduction
in planar and cylindrical solids
- Conduction with internal
heat generation
- Biological Applications: Bioinstrumentation,
Regulation of Body Temperature, Biomaterials
- Convective Heat transfer
- Biological Applications: Temperature
control in a blood oxygenator, Medical temperature sensors
, Biomaterials
- Heat transfer coefficients
- Heat Transfer by Radiation
- Biological Applications: Anti-cancer
therapies, tissue heating by biomedical imaging
- Unsteady Heat
transfer-lumped capacitance models
- Biological Applications:
Transient analysis of body temperature
- Heat Transfer in laminar
and pipe flows
- Biological Applications: Heat transfer in
blood vessels
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