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The Mechanics of the Circulation.
This classic book outlines the anatomy and physiology of the circulation and explains the mechanical principles that govern it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE MECHANICS OF THE CIRCULATION; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Second Edition; Part I Background mechanics; 1 Particles and continuous materials; 2 Particle mechanics; Position; Velocity; Acceleration; Newton's laws of motion: mass and force; Momentum; Work and energy; 3 Units; The difference between units and dimensions; Mass, length and time as fundamental units; The inconvenience of force as a fundamental unit; Energy and heat; The concept of substance; Dimensional homogeneity and consistency of units.
- The use of volume and flow rate in physiologySystème International (SI); 4 Basic ideas in fluid mechanics; Stress; Hydrostatic pressure; Stress in a moving fluid: viscosity; The equation of motion of a fluid; Convective and local acceleration; Conservation of mass; Bernoulli's theorem; 5 Flow in pipes and around objects; Poiseuille flow in a tube; Flow in the entrance region; The idea of the boundary layer; Reynolds number; Turbulence in pipe flow; Unsteady flow in a very long pipe; Effects of constrictions on pipe flow characteristics; Flow in curved pipes; Flow past bodies.
- 6 Dimensional analysisSimilarity and the idea of scale models; Some examples of scaling in biological systems; A method of obtaining homogeneous relationships between variables; 7 Solid mechanics and the properties of blood vessel walls; Definitions of elastic properties; The properties of blood vessel walls; Statics of an elastic tube; 8 Oscillations and waves; Simple harmonic motion; Simple waves; Damping; Wave reflections and resonance; Linearity; Fourier analysis; 9 An introduction to mass transfer; Diffusion; The colloidal state; Mass transfer coefficients.
- Diffusion through pores and membranesFiltration through membranes; Osmosis; A simple mass transfer model; The interaction of bulk flow and diffusion; Part II Mechanics of the circulation; 10 Blood; Viscosity of fluids and suspensions; Osmotic pressure of plasma; The suspended elements; The blood cells; Blood coagulation; Thrombosis; Mechanical properties of whole blood; 11 The heart; Anatomy of the heart; The cardiac cycle; Properties of cardiac muscle; Mechanical behaviour of the intact heart; Fluid mechanical aspects of cardiac function; Sounds and murmurs in the heart; Further reading.
- 12 The systemic arteriesAnatomy and structure; Blood pressure and flow in systemic arteries; Wave propagation in arteries; Reflection and transmission of the wave at junctions; The influence of nonlinearities; Viscous effects; Other types of wave; Flow patterns in arteries; Appendix: Impedance; Further reading; 13 The systemic microcirculation; The organization of a microvascular bed; The structure of the vessels of the microcirculation; Static mechanical properties of the microcirculatory vessels; Pressure in the microcirculation.