Computational fluid dynamics in Biomedical Systems
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Computational fluid dynamics in Biomedical Systems Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Computational fluid dynamics in Biomedical Systems (subject code 3160312) as prescribed for Biomed · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3160312)Unit 1 Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Definition & properties of fluids and classification of fluids
- Introduction to fluid statics & kinematics
- Governing Equations of fluid motion: Lagrangian and Eulerian description
- Reynolds transport theorem
- Integral & differential forms of governing equations: mass
- momentum & energy conservation equations
- Euler’s equation
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Navier-Stokes equations
Unit 2 Biofluid Mechanics
- Viscoelastic fluids
- viscoelastic models
- Bio viscoelastic fluids: Protoplasm
- Synovial fluids
- Blood rheology
- Blood vessel mechanics
- Fahraeus - Lindquist effect
Unit 3 Discretization Fundamentals & CFD Introduction
- Discretization principles: pre-processing
- post processing
- Structured mesh systems and its properties
- Unstructured mesh Systems and its properties
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: what
- when & why, CFD applications
Unit 4 Introduction to FEM, FDM and FVM
- Finite Element Method (FEM) – principle and application
- Finite Difference method (FDM) – principle and application
- Finite Volume method (FVM) – principle and application
Unit 5 Computational Approaches in Fluid Dynamics
- Biomedical CFD applications: CFD analysis of the human circulation
- CFD analysis of blood pump
- CFD analysis in the human respiratory system
- Bio-Microfluidic device application and simulations