Transport in Biological Media

Sid Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and is a recipient of the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant. He has held academic positions in Germany, the United States, and New Zealand. His research is primarily in computational and analytical modelling of heat and mass transfer processes in biological media. Dr. Becker is also the editor of the book Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes (2017) and co-editor of the books Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes (2015), and Transport in Biological Media (2013). Dr. Kuznetsov is Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. He holds a joint professorial position at the University of North Carolina’s Biomedical Engineering Department. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, an Editorial Board Member of the Proceeding of the Royal Society A, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Porous Media. He is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. In 2014, Dr. Kuznetsov was elected as a Member of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer. He has published more than 400 journal papers, 17 book chapters, 3 books, and 100 conference papers. His works have been cited over 12,000 times: he has an h-index of 51 and an i-10 index of over 220. While his most notable early contributions are in the development of the field of porous media, Prof. Kuznetsov’s research interests in the general area of numerical modeling are extensive, including transport in living tissues, sub-cellular transport, mass transport in neurons and axons, bioheat transport, bioconvective sedimentation, fluid mechanics, flows in microgravity, and turbulence.

"Transport in Biological Media. Edited by Sid M. Becker and Andrey V. Kuznetsov. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Boston (Massachusetts): Elsevier. $149.95. xiii 559 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-12-415824-5. 2013." --The Quarterly Review of Biology,September 2014"Biochemists and biochemical engineers present interdisciplinary modeling strategies and theoretical tools that are used to understand the diverse phenomena associated with transport within biological media." --Reference and Research Book News, August 2013

• Chapter 1: Modeling momentum and mass transport in cellular biological media: from the molecular to the tissue scaleChapter 2:Thermal pain in tooth: heat transfer, thermomechanics, and ion transportChapter 3: Drug Release in Biological Tissues Chapter 4: Transport of Water and Solutes across Endothelial Barriers and Tumor Cell Adhesion in the MicrocirculationChapter 5: Carrier Mediated Transport through BiomembranesChapter 6: Blood flow through capillary networksChapter 7: Models of Cerebrovascular PerfusionChapter 8: Mechanobiology of the Arterial Wall Chapter 9: Shear Stress Variation and Plasma Viscosity Effect in MicrocirculationChapter 10: Targeted Drug Delivery: Multifunctional Nanoparticles and Direct Micro-drug Delivery to TumorsChapter 11: Electrotransport across Membranes in Biological Media: Electrokinetic Theories and Applications in Drug DeliveryChapter 12: Mass transfer phenomena in electroporationChapter 13: Modeling of cell electroporation and its measurable effects in tissueChapter 14: Modeling Intracellular Transport in Neurons