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EBME 474. Bio-transport Processes

Course Syllabus

Lecture#

Topics

1

Introduction, basic concepts in mass transport material balance, mathematical models

2

Review of equilibrium thermodynamics, interfacial equilibrium, gas-liquid interfaces

3

Membrane equilibrium, resting potential, osmotic pressure

4

Reaction equilibrium, oxygen and carbon dioxide transport in blood

5

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, diffusion velocities and fluxes, binary and multicomponent diffusion

6

Solving mass transport problems, one dimensional diffusion

7

One dimensional diffusion, pulmonary oxygen uptake

8

Diffusion with reaction, unsteady diffusion, diffusion coefficients and estimation

9

Transport through membranes, diffusion in porous medium, electrolyte diffusion

10

Oxygen diffusion in blood, transport across interfaces, oxygen electrode in flowing blood

11

Mass transport resistances in series, mass transfer coefficients

12

Chemical reactions, reaction rates, receptor-ligand binding, enzyme kinetics, reaction networks

13

EXAM #1

14

Multidimensional transport, mass & momentum balances

15

Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, flow of amniotic fluid, pulsatile flow of blood

16

Boundary layer flows, flow in lung airways, pressure drop in renal tubule             

17

Flow over a rotating disk, flow through porous media, flow in interstitium

18

Multidimensional species mass transport, disk electrode as biosensor, albumin release from hydrogel

19

Diffusion with convection, boundary layer development, axial dispersion in a vessel

20

Transport with a rotating disk, cell adhesion, transport through porous media

21

Diffusion with chemical reaction, reactive gas transport in lung

22

Encapsulated enzyme reactor, transport in arterial wall, transport and reaction in perfused tissue,

23

Active transport through an artificial membrane, O2 transport in pulmonary tissue

24

Nutrient transport in cell culture, solute transport with surface reaction in a flow reactor

25

Drug delivery into single cells, diffusion and reaction in cell culture

26

Cell population balances, tumor vascularization and growth, chemotaxis with inflammatory response

27

Stem cell differentiation for tissue engineering, epidermal regeneration in tissue-engineered skin

28

Drug distribution in ablated and non-ablated tissues, intracranial drug delivery

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