introduction to biofluid mechanics

... we had to trust mainly to Rankine's text books Occasionally in the higher classes he would forget all about having to lecture and after waiting for ten minutes or so, we sent the janitor to tell ... formula or other and say it was wrong He then went up to the blackboard to prove this He wrote on the board with his back to us, talking to himself, and every now and then rubbed it all out and ... liquid makes a rotary ’In general, vector with the following components x, y, z for vector V (components x, y, z are u, v, w) is called the rotation or curl of vector V, which can be written as rot...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2012, 10:59

... only too well known There are so many scientific terms named after Newton (Newton's rings and Newton's law of motion/ viscosity/resistance) that he can be regarded as the greatest contributor to ... hand is easy to compress, and fully expands to fill its container There is thus no free surface Consequently, an important characteristic of a fluid from the viewpoint of fluid mechanics is its ... are divided into liquids and gases A liquid is hard to compress and as in the ancient saying ‘Water takes the shape of the vessel containing it’, it changes its shape according to the shape of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2012, 10:59

... (3.26) into (3.25) to calculate y, (3.27) Parallel a x b theorem: The moment of inertia with respect to any axis equals the sum of the moment of inertia with respect to the axis parallel to this ... metre Torr Pa bar mH,O atm mHg torr Pa = N/m2 bar = 0.1 MPa mH,O = 806.65 Pa atm = 101 325Pa mHg = 1/0.76 atm torr = 1mmHg 3.1.2 Absolute pressure and gauge pressure There are two methods used to ... to water pressure, such as the bank of a dam, the sluice gate of a dam or the wall of a water tank? How large must the torque be to open the sluice gate of a dam? What is the force required to...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2012, 10:59

... Cited 778 Supplemental Reading 778 xvi CONTENTS 16 Introduction to Biofluid Mechanics 779 PORTONOVO S AYYASWAMY 16.1 Introduction 779 16.2 The Circulatory System in the Human Body 780 The Heart as ... pedagogical tool for an effective lecturer Thus my primary revision objective has been to improve the text’s overall utility to students and instructors by adding introductory material and references to ... have been drawn to study, harness, and exploit fluid mechanics to develop and test formal and computational techniques, to better understand the natural world, and to attempt to improve the human...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 14:50

... into the principles of “Asymptotology” remains with me today as a way to view problems I am grateful also to countless students who asked questions, forcing me to rethink many points The editors ... 758 761 763 763 Chapter 17 Introduction to Biofluid Mechanics Introduction The Circulatory System in the Human Body ... professional responsibility To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 14:53

... precorrected to give sea level readings.) Sampling, Storage, and Sample Conditioning 6.5 Automated equipment manufactured in 1999 and later shall be equipped with a device to automatically shut ... continue to decrease If the vapor temperature starts to decrease but then increases and repeats this cycle while the vapor temperature continues to increase you have added too much heat to the ... not been corrected to standard temperature and to standard gravity 11.3 Correct temperature readings to 101.3 kPa (760 mm Hg) pressure Obtain the correction to be applied to each temperature...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2014, 17:17

... Zastosowanie preparatu antyhomotoksycznego Traumeel S w postepowaniu pooperacyjnym po tonsylektomii (The use of antihomotoxic preparation Traumeel S, in postoperative management after tonsillectomy) ... B, Simon JC Effect of topical application of Hypericum perforatum extract (St Johns wort) on skin sensitivity to solar simulated radiation Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed 2000;16(3):125-128 ... metabolism In bioregulatory medicine, achieving a bioregulatory balance between pro- and antiinflammatory cytokines is considered to be the critical step in recovery Reckewegs bioregulatory concept has...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20

... and Phytoplankton absorption, site H2D 49 3.12 Histogram of derived S 52 3.13 Exampled of fitted CDOM and Phytoplankton absorption 52 3.14 Histogram ... contribute to the total reflectance measured 4 In this study, an algorithm was implemented to tackle this problem by selecting spectral windows to minimize the influence from the sea bottom A matrix ... geographical and climatoral factors Models used to retrieve these opti8 2.1 INTRODUCTION cal properties are usually built on semi-analytical equations that relate them to remote sensing reflectance...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:05

... shown to be able to decrease the strength of nanocrystalline metals by a factor of [10, 17] By the same token, the thermal history of the samples (after preparation) has been demonstrated to affect ... to as the interatomic force, i.e., the force exerted on atom i due to specifics of the environment it is exposed to 3.1.2 Embedded Atom Potential In MD simulations, the interatomic forces are ... embedded atom potential, the total energy of an assembly of atoms is represented as [7] Utot = UN + UP (3.6) – 33 – Chapter Modeling Methods The first term is the energy to embed atom i in a...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 14:23

... Contents Appendix to Chapter pTX Appendix to Chapter pVTX Appendix to Chapter Potentiometry Appendix to Chapter Electrical Conductivity Appendix to Chapter Thermal Conductivity Appendix to Chapter Viscosity ... 1993 Lietzke and Stoughton, 1960 Bourcier et al., 1993 Castet et al., 1993 Gammons and Barnes, 1989 Stefansson and Seward, 2003a Lietzke and Stoughton, 1963 Lietzke and Stoughton, 1956 Jones et ... (n-hexane) C6H14 (n-hexane) C6H14 (n-hexane) Cr.ph C7H8 (toluene) C7H8 (toluene) C7H8 (toluene) C7H8 (toluene); C7H8 (toluene) in D2O C7H8 (toluene) C6H14O (1-hexanol) H-Fl; Immisc Immisc; Cr.ph...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:22

... regulatory and the catalytic domains (residues 1429), were performed to demonstrate the interactions of the dihydroxypropyl side-chain of the pterin cofactors with the N-terminal autoregulatory ... allowed to proceed for up to h at 25 C and aliquots were taken at dierent time intervals The reaction was stopped by the addition of soybean trypsin inhibitor (the ratio trypsin : inhibitor : 1.5, ... cofactor onto the structure of the ligandfree rPAH (containing the regulatory and catalytic domains) [19] revealed that both the reduced and the oxidized cofactor interact with the N-terminal autoregulatory...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... and 437 correspond to [M + H]+ and [M + Na]+ of the Phe-Ade, respectively; (B) m ⁄ z ¼ 415 and 437 correspond to [M + H]+ and [M + Na]+ of the Phe-Ade, respectively, m ⁄ z ¼ 450 to [M + H]+ of the ... Val, Phe and Lys, respectively Tryptophan bound to CoA[OH] and acetyl-CoA[OH] with yields of 17 and 29%, respectively The aminoacylation of CoA[OH] with tryptophan was essentially completed in ... the first step, high pressure induces a lowering of pH and protonation of amino acid A proton from the 2¢- or 3¢-OH group is transferred to imidazole and a lone oxygen pair attack activates the carbon...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... setup with an air atomizing spray nozzle (QuickMist QMJML, Spraying Systems Co.), which is positioned on the side of the hot plate allowing the atomized spray to flow parallel to the Page 20 of ... up to several 100 µm directly on the samples (Fig 2) The nanowire density was lower and nanowires tend to be shorter towards the middle of the samples Growth of nanowires with cr lengths up to ... continue to deposit on the formed nucleus and the side surfaces that have lower energy start to form Due to the high mobility of the molecules, the next molecules diffuse on the surface, move to the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 15:26

... properties Introduction A significant increase in the energy density of rechargeable batteries is required to satisfy the demands of vehicular applications and energy storage systems One approach to ... molar ratio of carbon to catalysts was adjusted to 95:5 The binder accounted for 20 wt.% of the total electrode The cells were assembled in an Ar-filled glove box and subjected to galvanostatic cycling ... air electrodes has yet to be achieved before these can be put to practical use After 10 cycles, the electrode was discharged to 2.3 V, and the surface was observed by SEM to investigate the morphology...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... led to some confusion because the original monoclonal antibodies used by early workers have since been shown to be directed to epitopes on known CD antigens, for example SH3 and SH4 bind to epitopes ... were found not to correspond to those of IDO expression and tryptophane depletion [37,38] Recently, failure to achieve significant restoration of T-cell proliferation via tryptophane addition ... of soluble factors in the immunomodulatory properties of MSCs Human MSCs caused T-helper-1 cells to decrease IFN-γ and T-helper2 cells to increase IL-4 secretion Addition of IFN-γ to MSCs in vitro...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... difficult for me to be in abroad and carry on studies, it was a tough decision to take at that time to PhD abroad and I thank all my family members who encouraged me for my desire to pursue higher ... purple: B-site atoms respectively) (b) Schematic of the BO6 octahedron structure where B-atom is surrounded by oxygen atoms Figure 2.2: (a) Spontaneous lattice distortion of STO with temperature ... Bert et al [50] (d) Torque magnetometry measurement on the LAO/STO interface samples From Lu Li et al [51] Figure 2.9: Schematic of the Ti 3d orbital picture for STO at the LAO/STO interface The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:11