An introduction to modeling of transport processes
Subtitle: applications to biomedical systems
By: Ashim Datta and Vineet Rakesh.
Contributors: Rakesh, Vineet.
Series: Cambridge texts in biomedical engineering; Cambridge texts in biomedical engineering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521119245
Subjects: Biological transport -- Computer simulation; Biological Transport; Computer Simulation; Models, Biological; Software
Description: "Organized around problem solving, this book gently introduces the reader to computational simulation of biomedical transport processes, bridging fundamental theory with real-world applications. Using this book the reader will gain a complete foundation to the subject, starting with problem simplification, implementation in software, through to interpretation of results, validation, and optimization"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Essential Steps: 1. Problem formulation; 2. Software implementation: what to solve; 3. Software implementation: how to solve (preprocessing); 4. Software implementation: visualizing and manipulating solution (postprocessing); 5. Validation, sensitivity analysis, optimization and debugging; Part II. Case Studies: 6. Case studies; Part III. Background Material; 7. Governing equations and boundary conditions; 8. Source terms; 9. Material properties and other input parameters; 10. Solving the equations: numerical methods.