Medicine and Surgery HT

- Fluid dynamics in medicine; - Statics of fluids: blood pressure; - Twodimensional Poiseuille flow and Hagen-Poiseuille flow; - Hydrodynamic resistance of vessels and airways; - Flow in actual vessels: effect of the vessel geometry and elasticity; - Fundamentals of blood rheology; - Fluid dynamics of the cardiovascular system, some of its pathologies, and protheses; - Fluid dynamics of the respiratory system and of some of its pathologies.

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.

Fung, Y. C. (2013). Biomechanics: circulation. Springer Science & Business Media. Kundu, P. K., Cohen, I. M., & Dowling, D. R. (2012). Fluid Mechanics, V edition, chapter 16. Academic Press Caro, C. G., Pedley, T.J., Schroter, R.C., & Seed, W.A. (2012). The mechanics of the circulation. Cambridge University Press

Face-to-face lectures