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[ 254MEGRMTPK20 ] KV Medical transport processes - theory and quantification
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3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year (*)Medical Engineering Gerda Buchberger 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Bachelor's programme Medical Engineering 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
  • Students are able to understand biological transport processes based on their physical principles, describe them quantitatively and evaluate them according to appropriate criteria.
  • Students can select suitable metrological methods for recording transport processes, understand these methods and can analyse and interpret their results.
Skills Knowledge
  • Calculation, analysis and evaluation of thermodynamic state changes. (k1-k5)
  • Calculation, analysis and evaluation of diffusion processes. (k1-k5)
  • Calculation, analysis and evaluation of laminar and turbulent flows. (k1-k5)
  • Calculation, analysis and evaluation of electrophysiological processes. (k1-k5)
  • Understanding and selecting measurement methods. (k1-k5)
  • Thermodynamic fundamentals: state variables, thermodynamic system and environment, thermodynamic and thermal equilibrium, main laws of thermodynamics, definition of temperature and entropy, thermodynamic potentials, equation of state (of the ideal gas), Boyle-Mariotte's law, 1st and 2nd law of Gay-Lussac, Avogadro's law and Avogadro number, law of partial pressures/ Dalton's law, process and change of state, quasi-static and non-static change of state, quasi-static and non-static change of state. Gay-Lussac's law, Avogadro's law and Avogadro's number, law of partial pressures/ Dalton's law, process and change of state, quasi-static and non-static changes of state, perpetuum mobile of the first and second kind, heat capacities, heat engine, (Carnot's) cycle, efficiency, basic human metabolism, reversible and irreversible processes.
  • Basic concepts of fluid mechanics, e.g. Euler's approach, field quantities, steady and unsteady flows, streamline, streakline, particle path, current tube, current thread
  • Stationary mass balance, momentum balance and power balance (for current filaments and 3D flows)
  • Bernoulli equation
  • Viscosity
  • Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids with blood as a concrete example
  • Dimensionless, fluid mechanics parameters such as the Reynolds number
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Fluids at rest and barometric height formula
  • Contact angle (Young's equation), surface tension, interfacial tension
  • Capillarity, Laplace pressure, capillary rise and fall
  • Navier-Stokes equations and examples of exact solutions of these equations
  • Laminar pipe flow (Hagen-Poiseuille law and Poiseuille flow)
  • Formed shear flow (Couette flow)
  • 1st and 2nd Stoke's problem
  • Diffusion and Brownian motion
  • Stokes' law
  • Fick's laws and generalisations of these
  • Nernst-Planck equation and the axon
  • Goldman equations and the reversal potential
  • Flow measurement technology: measurement of pressures, velocities/turbulence and currents through the cell membrane/cell
Criteria for evaluation Active participation Exercise examples Written and oral exams
Methods Common elaboration of the lecture material using a combination of talks, solving of exercise examples by the students, group discussions and application examples
Language (*)Deutsch; auf Wunsch der Studierenden auch Englisch
Study material Lecture notes with references to further literature will be available
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants -
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority