Reading assignments are from the required course textbook:
Grodzinsky, Alan. Field, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems. Garland Science, 2011. ISBN: 9780815342120. [Preview with Google Books]
LEC # | READING ASSIGNMENTS |
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1–5 |
Chapter 1: Chemical Transport in Electrolyte Media 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Diffusive Flux and Continuity 1.3 A Molecular View of Diffusion |
6–7 |
Chapter 1: Chemical Transport in Electrolyte Media 1.4 Chemical Reactions: Some Common Examples 1.5 Boundary Conditions and Boundary Value Problems 1.6 Diffusion and Chemical Reactions 1.7 Problems |
8–9 |
Chapter 2: Electric Fields and Flows in Electrolyte Media 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Laws of Electromagnetism 2.3 Maxwell's Equations in Media: Polarization, Magnetization, and Conduction
2.5 The Quasistatic Approximations Subsection 2.5.1 2.6 EQS and MQS Boundary Value Problems in Biological Systems |
10–12 |
Chapter 2: Electric Fields and Flows in Electrolyte Media 2.7 Electric Fields and Currents in Conducting Biological Systems |
13–14 |
Chapter 3: Electrochemical Coupling and Transport 3.1 Ion Transport in a Binary Electrolyte 3.4 Donnan Equilibrium and the Donnan Potential: Charged Membranes and Tissues in Equilibrium |
15–18 |
Chapter 5: Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 5.1 Introduction 5.4 Inviscid, Incompressible Flow: Bernoulli's Equation 5.6 Plane, Fully Developed Flow of Incompressible, Viscous Fluids; Low-Reynolds-Number Flow |
19–20 |
Chapter 5: Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 5.11 Diffusion Boundary Layers Chapter 7: Rheology of Biological Tissues and Polymeric Biomaterials 7.5 Poroelastic Behavior of Biomaterials: Theories and Experiments |
21–24 |
Chapter 6: Electrokinetics: MEMS, NEMS, and Nanoporous Biological Tissues 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Electrocapillary and Electrokinetic Phenomena 6.3 Electroosmosis and Streaming Potentials in Charged, Porous Membranes and Tissues |