Computer Modeling in Bioengineering: Theoretical Background, Examples and Software

Table of Contents:
Contributors. Preface. Part I: Theoretical Background of Computational Methods. 1. Notation - Matrices and Tensors. 2. Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics. 3. Heat Transfer, Diffusion, Fluid Mechanics, and Fluid Flow through Porous Deformable Media. Part II: Fundamentals of Computational Methods. 4. Isoparametric Formulation of Finite Elements. 5. Dynamic Finite Element Analysis. 6. Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis. 7. Finite Element Modeling of Field Problems. 8. Discrete Particle Methods for Modeling of Solids and Fluids. Part III: Computational Methods in Bioengineering. 9. Introduction to Bioengineering. 10. Bone Modeling. 11. Biological Soft Tissue. 12. Skeletal Muscles. 13. Blood Flow and Blood Vessels. 14. Modeling Mass Transport and Thrombosis in Arteries. 15. Cartilage Mechanics. 16. Cell Mechanics. 17. Extracellular Mechanotransduction: Modeling Ligand Concentration Dynamics in the Lateral Intercellular Space of Compressed Airway Epithelial Cells. 18. Spider Silk: Modeling Solvent Removal during Synthetic and Nephila clavipes Fiber Spinning. 19. Modeling in Cancer Nanotechnology. Index.

About the Author :
Milos Kojic, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA Milos Kojic is professor of mechanical engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia; and Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston. He is one of the leading scientists in computational mechanics. He has published, as the author or mainly the first author, around 60 journal papers, among which are papers in leading international journals, as International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Comp. Mech., International Journal of Vehicle Design, Appl. Mech., Computers and Struct, Biophysical Journal, Phys. Rev., etc. His research spans from the finite element method in general, methods of inelastic analysis of solids and structures, field and coupled problems, to biomechanics, and recently molecular dynamics and discrete particle methods. Nenad Filipovic, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Serbia and Montenegro Nenad Filipovic is associate professor of mechanical engineering, University of Kragujevac,? Serbia; and research associate at Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston. He is young scientist and author and co-author of a number of papers in international journals. Boban Stojanovic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro Boban Stojanovic is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at Multidisciplinary Graduate Studies of University of Kragujevac. He received his B.S. at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of University of Kragujevac, as first in his generation and most talented students. During his studies he participated significantly in development of the finite element program PAK. Akira Tsuda, Boston, MA Akira Tsuda is Principal Research Scientist, in the Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health. He is an expert in biofluid mechanics, specifically in the field of respiratory flow and aerosol physiology. He has published extensively in this field and in the related field. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects, including international bioengineering projects/p> Nikola Kojic, Cambridge, MA, USA Nikola Kojic is a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from MIT, working on synthetic and natural spider silk. Specifically, his focus was on the application of computational models to synthetic and natural spider silk fiber spinning.