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BIOE 413: Bioengineering Transport Phenomena

 

 

Course Topics:

  • Diffusion of Non-electrolyte Solutions
    • Fluxes and velocities of species in mixtures
    • Dilute solution assumption
    • Species continuity and conservation relations
    • Governing and constitutive relations for diffusion in multiple coordinate systems
  • Estimation of Diffusion Coefficients in Gases and Liquids
  • Diffusion with simultaneous chemical reactions
  • Diffusion of Electrolyte Solutions
    • Chemical Potential
    • Phase Equilibrium
    • Electrochemical Potential
  • Diffusion of Concentrated Solutions
  • Membrane Transport
    • Passive Diffusion
    • Active Transport
    • Facilitated Transport
  • Starling’s Law of Filtration
  • Darcy’s Law and Brinkman Equation
  • Michaelis-Menton kinetics for enzymatic reactions
  • Oxygen Transport
    • Krogh Cylinder Model
    • Hemoglobin-Oxygen relationships
      • Hill’s 2-paramter model
      • Adair’s Mode
  • Mass Transfer Coefficients
    • Dimensionless numbers
    • Diffusion+ Convection
    • Analysis of dialysis membranes
  • Compartmental modeling
    • Drug delivery
    • Pharmacokinetic analysis
    • Pharmacodynamic and Toxicokinetic relationships in drug delivery