Main description:

Condensing 40 years of teaching experience, this unique textbook will provide students with an unrivalled understanding of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, and enable them to place that understanding firmly within a biological context. Each chapter introduces, explains, and expands a core concept in biofluid mechanics, establishing a firm theoretical framework for students to build upon in further study. Practical biofluid applications, clinical correlations, and worked examples throughout the book provide real-world scenarios to help students quickly master key theoretical topics. Examples are drawn from biology, medicine, and biotechnology with applications to normal function, disease, and devices, accompanied by over 500 figures to reinforce student understanding. Featuring over 120 multicomponent end-of-chapter problems, flexible teaching pathways to enable tailor-made course structures, and extensive Matlab and Maple code examples, this is the definitive textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying a biologically-grounded course in fluid mechanics.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction to Biofluid Mechanics; 2. Scalings, Parameters, and Variables; 3. Kinematics, Lagrangian and Eulerian Variables; 4. Conservation of Mass; 5. Conservation of Momentum; 6. Constitutive Equations 1: Inviscid and Newtonian Viscous Fluids; 7. Steady Newtonian Viscous Flow; 8. Unsteady Newtonian Viscous Flow; 9. Flow in Flexible Tubes; 10. Constitutive Equations 2: Generalised Newtonian Fluids; 11. Lubrication Theory; 12. Laminar Boundary Layers; 13. Turbulence; 14. Constitutive Equations 3: Viscoelastic Fluids; 15. Porous Media; 16. Interfacial Phenomena; 17. Perturbation Methods; Index.