Biofluid Mechanics

James B. Grotberg is a PhD and MD Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and a Professor in the Department of Surgery, at the University of Michigan, with many years of research, teaching and clinical experience focused on biofluid mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

• 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.

'The author has an M.D. as well as a Ph.D. and exemplifies every fundamental aspect of fluid mechanics with real physiological and clinical applications. Novel features are the display of MATLAB or Maple codes to derive numerical results and the realistic homework problem sets at the end of each chapter, in which the students are led through the elementary mathematical stages of the solution but must compute and plot the quantitative results for themselves. A refreshing approach to an increasingly important area of biomedical engineering, from which instructors as well as students will learn a lot.' Timothy Pedley, University of Cambridge