Ebook: Rheology of Complex Fluids and Blood Flows

Stockholm: Div. of Heat and Power Technology Department of Energy Technology The Royal Institute of Technology, 2004. - 88 pages.This course of lectures is intended for the 3rd – 4th year university students (bachelor degree) of mechanical-mathematical faculties, which specialize to Aerohydromechanics and Mechanics of continua. It will be also useful for the students of the 5th –6th year of university study (master degree) and graduate students of technical universities, which are interested in the problems of applied biophysics and biomedicine. The authors thus come from the idea that in case of many important
problems of biology and medicine discussion, successful implementation of the methodology accepted in the scientific disciplines, which are related neither to biology, nor to medicine is possible. Some materials were chosen under the great influence of the Lightfoot E.N monograph. The fact that, mainly, the circulatory system of humans and higher animals is considered had a strong influence on the style of material representation. Thus, it’s expedient that the main attention in the lectures notes will be paid to some special questions of complex fluids rheology (blood, in particular) and to the problem of blood flows in different parts of human and higher animals blood circulation system.