Cardiovascular System and Dynamics
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The official GTU curriculum for Cardiovascular System and Dynamics (subject code ME02031031) as prescribed for BE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 39 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 (ME02031031)Unit 1 Cardiovascular system of human body, Electrical system of
- the heart
- Mechanical events in cardiac cycle
- correlation between mechanical and electrical events in the heart
- coronary circulation
Unit 2 Kinetic energy, pressure-volume relations in ventricles,
- cardiac valve dysfunction
- blood pressure regulation and controlling factors
- heart failure
- Blood hematology and blood Rheology
- Blood characteristics
- Abnormalities of blood
- Blood types
- Plasma viscosity
- blood pH
Unit 3 Introduction to fluid mechanics, fluid properties, basic laws of
- conservation of mass
- energy and momentum
- Hook’s law, Newton’s laws of viscosity
- Power law constitutive model for blood
- Fluid characteristics and viscosity
- calculation of yield stress for blood Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Bio Medical Engineering Subject Code: ME02031031 Subject Name: Cardiovascular System & Dynamics
Unit 4 Types of fluid flow, Laminar blood flow, Turbulent blood
- Importance of turbulence
- Newtonian fluids
- Non Newtonian fluids
- Laminar Flow of Non Newtonian Fluids
- Flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid in rigid
- flexible and collapsible tubes
- blood flow through arteries and veins
- methods for measuring viscosity
- forces that drive or resist blood flow
- Vascular resistance to blood flow
- Reynolds number
- Poiseuille’s law, Application of Poiseuille’s law, Bernoulli equation
- Pulsatile Flow
Unit 5 Anatomy and physiology of blood vessels, Wave phenomena
- in blood vessels
- Types of vessels
- Mechanics of arterial walls
- Windkessel model
- vascular pathologies
- coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
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