Heat Trans. & Mass Trans. in Bio. Sys.
- Introduction to mass transfer
Diffusive mass transfer
•Fick's first law of diffusion
•Prediction of diffusivity
- Conservation of mass in a stationary medium
•Boundary conditions for conservation of mass equation
•Diffusive mass transfer with mass production or first order internal reaction
•Diffusive mass transfer with catalytic surface reaction
- One dimensional steady diffusion without mass production or consumption
- One dimensional unsteady diffusion without mass production or consumption
•spatial effects
•Semi-infinite body
- Mass transfer in a non-stationary Medium
- Convective mass transfer
•Mass transfer boundary layer
•Analogy of heat, mass and momentum transfer
- Mass transfer in porous media
•Osmotic flow in porous media
- Human body as a thermodynamic system
•Energy production in the body or metabolism
•Basal metabolic rate BMR
•Metabolic rate during activities
•Calorimetry
•Work, power and efficiency
- Loss of heat from the body
•Radiation heat loss
•Convection heat loss
•Evaporation heat loss
•Heat lost by sweat secretion
•Respiration heat loss
•Conduction heat loss
- Heat diffusion equation and boundary conditions
- One dimensional steady heat conduction without heat generation
- One dimensional unsteady heat conduction without heat generation
•Lumped capacitance
•spatial effects
•Semi-infinite body
- Convective heat transfer
- Heat transfer within the body
• Bioheat transfer or Pennes equationa and its modifications
- Thermal damage to cells and tissue