Biomechanical Systems: Techniques and Applications, Volume IV: Biofluid Methods in Vascular and Pulmonary Systems

✍ Scribed by Cornelius Leondes

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Because of developments in powerful computer technology, computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of diverse technologies, and other advances coupled with cross disciplinary pursuits between technology and its greatly significant applied implications in human body processes, the field of biomechanics is evolving as a broadly significant area. The four volumes of Biomechanical Systems: Techniques and Applications presents the advances in widely diverse areas with significant implications for human betterment that occur continuously at a high rate. These include dynamics of musculo-skeletal systems; mechanics of hard and soft tissues; mechanics of muscle; mechanics of bone remodeling; mechanics of implant-tissue interfaces; cardiovascular and respiratory biomechanics; mechanics of blood flow, air flow, flow-prosthesis interfaces; mechanics of impact; dynamics of man machine interaction; and numerous other areas. The great breadth and depth of the field of biomechanics on the international scene requires at least four volumes for adequate treatment. These four volumes constitute a well integrated set that can be utilized as individual volumes. They provide a substantively significant and rather comprehensive, in-depth treatment of biomechanic systems and techniques that is most surely unique on the international scene.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 4
The Editor......Page 5
Contributors......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
1 Hemodynamics Simulations and Optimal ComputerAided Designs of Branching Blood Vessels......Page 9
2 Techniques in Fluid Dynamical Wall Shear Phenomena andTheir Application in the Blood Flow......Page 68
3 A Measurement Method for Wall Shear Stress and a Fluid Mechanical Application for Vascular Disease......Page 98
4 Techniques for Measuring Blood Flow in the Microvascular Circulation......Page 132
5 Finite Element Models for Arterial Wall Mechanics and Transport......Page 161
6 A Three-Dimensional Vascular Model and Its Application to the Determination of the Spatial Variations in the Arterial, Venous, and Tissue Temperature Distribution......Page 193
7 Arterial Fluid Dynamics: The Relationship to Atherosclerosis and Application in Diagnostics......Page 217
8 Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Techniques Using Finite Element Methods to Predict Arterial Blood Flow......Page 235
9 Numerical SimulationTechniques and TheirApplication to the Human Vascular System......Page 261
10 Flow in Thin-Walled Collapsible Tubes......Page 304
11 Techniques in the Modeling and Simulation of Blood Flows at the Aortic Bifurcation with Flexible Walls......Page 348
12 Airway Dimensions in the Human Determined by Non-Invasive Acoustic Imaging......Page 361