Medicine and Surgery HT

- Equations of mass conservation, application to stenoses and aneurisms; - Equation of momentum conservation; - Reynolds transport theorem, Navier-Stokes equations, dimensionless numbers; - Chemical equilibrium and Onsager relations; - Transport mechanisms in biomembranes; - Osmotic pressure; - Physical aspects of glomerular filtration; - Fluid dynamics of the urinary system in physiological and pathological conditions.

Basic knowledge of calculus.

Notes and slides provided by the teacher

Lectures; final group project with presentation

compulsory

Oral exam with the objective of assessing the knowledge of the topics covered during the course.

Kundu, P. K., Cohen, I. M., & Dowling, D. R. (2012). Fluid Mechanics, V edizione. Academic Press C. Kleinstreuer. “Biofluid Dynamics: Principles and Selected Applications”, CRC press, Boca Raton USA (2006). William Stillwell, Chapter 19 - Membrane Transport, An Introduction to Biological Membranes (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2016, Pages 423-451, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63772-7.00019-1. O. Kedem and A. Katchalsky: “Termodynamics analysis of the permeability of biological membranes to non-electrolytes”, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Vol. 27, (1958), pp. 229–246. Physiology book adopted in other courses

Face-to-face lectures