JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisites

Nil

UNIT - I

Heat Transport: Body temperature regulation modes of heat transfer, processes of Head loss and heat gain from the human body. Heat transportation in Tissues, Muscles, Skin, and other Organs in different environmental temperatures. Models of heat transfer in the body.

UNIT - II

Fundamentals and applications of mass transport: Introduction to Mass Transport. Diffusion with Convection or Electrical Potentials. Transport in Porous Media. Trans vascular Transport. Solvent and Solute Transport across the Kidney Glomerulus.

UNIT - III

Processes of mass transfer Diffusion, Osmosis, Electro Osmosis. Ultra filtration. Reverse Osmosis through natural Membrane systems, Reverse Osmosis through artificial synthetic Membranes.

UNIT - IV

Mass Transport and Biochemical Interactions, Oxygen Transport from the Lungs to the Tissues.

UNIT - V

Mass transfer: Mass transfer in Kidney, Skeletal, Nervous, G. I. system, Cardio Pulmonary system. Mass transfer in Dialyzers and Oxygenators.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Fournier, Ronald L, Basic transport phenomena in biomedical engineering. Taylor & Francis. 1998

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. David. O. Cooney, Biomedical engg. Principles: An introduction to fluid, Heat & Mass transport process Vol &2; Marcel Dekker Inc.
• 2. Medical physiology by Ganong, MGH
• 3. Physiology by Best and Taylor, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins R16 B.TECH BIOMEDICAL ENGG.