Biofluid Dynamics of Human Body Systems

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez Campus. He was proclaimed as the “Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century” by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. A prolific author and editor, he has published more than 200 journal articles, several textbooks, and over 120 edited books. Arka Bhowmik, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA. He formerly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Medical Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He was also an adhoc faculty in mechanical engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India.Anamika Chauhan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Home Science at Chanam Lal Madhavidhyalya Haridwar, Sri Dev Suman University, Uttarakhand, India. She has published several research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, edited books, and a textbook. She has also been associated with workshops and conferences. Her research interests and areas range across education, nutrition, and human health.

• 1. Introduction and Properties of Biofluids in the Human Body Systems 2. Applications of Dimensional Analysis in Bioengineering 3. Navier-Stokes Equation for Modeling Biofluid Dynamics 4. Bioheat Transfer in the Human Body 5. Bioheat Transfer Models: Theory and Applications in Bioengineering 6. Biomass Transfer in the Human Body 7. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Circulatory System 8. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Respiratory System 9. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Brain 10. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Urinary System 11. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Digestive System 12. Biofluid Dynamics of the Human Maternal-Fetal System 13. Kinetics of Drug Transport in the Human Body Systems 14. Instrumentation and Measurements of the Human Body Fluids 15. Medical Imaging of the Human Body Fluids: Principle and Diagnostics