3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper Division
Teaches modeling methods for biomedical engineering problems with focus on fluid/solid mechanics. Students are introduced to the most common numerical techniques in biomedical engineering and will learn the applications of these techniques to biomechanical problems at various length scales, such as cardiac contraction and blood flow. The first half of this course focuses on modeling based on ordinary differential equation (ODE) and partial differential equation (PDE) as well as on how we integrate these equations analytically or numerically using software packages such as MATLAB. The other half focuses on fundamentals of fluid/solid mechanics and also on the application of COMSOL or similar software to solving relevant biomechanical problems.
Learning Outcomes1Solve biomechanical problems involved with physical situations of real biomedical systems by formulating ordinary and partial differential equations and solving the equations via MATLAB.
2Investigate complicated fluid flows observed in biomedical systems by applying knowledge in fluid mechanics and using COMSOL.
3Analyze stress and strain of biomedical materials by applying continuum mechanics and using COMSOL.
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