Biotransport Phenomena

The efficient transport of energy, mass, and momentum is essential to the normal function of living systems. Changes in these processes often result in pathological conditions. Transport phenomena are also critical to the design of instrumentation for medical applications and biotechnology. The course aims to introduce the integrated study of transport processes and their biological applications. It covers the fundamental driving forces for transport in biological systems and the biophysics across multiple length scales (molecules, cells, tissues, organs, whole organisms). Topics include chemical gradients, electrical interactions, fluid flow, mass transport. Pre-requisites: Calculus, MATLAB, basic fluid mechanics, heat transfer, solid mechanics.