1
This course covers the fundamental driving forces for transport—chemical gradients
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
694 years, 4 months
Units & Quizzes
25
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
electrical interactions, and fluid flow—as applied to the biology and biophysics of molecules, cells, and tissues.
Course Currilcum
- Course introduction, overview, and objectives Unlimited
-
- Introduction to random processes; Boltzmann distribution and statistical thermodynamics Unlimited
- Diffusion as a random walk; Stokes-Einstein relation for diffusion coefficient Unlimited
- Constitutive equations for diffusion (Fick’s Laws) Unlimited
- Examples of diffusion-reaction Unlimited
- Case study: IGF-1 diffusion-reaction within tissues Unlimited
-
- E-fields and transport; Maxwell’s equations Unlimited
- Define electrical potential; conservation of charge; Electro-quasistatics Unlimited
- Laplacian solutions via Separation of Variables Unlimited
- Electrochemical coupling; Electrical double layers; Poisson–Boltzmann Equation Unlimited
- Donnan equilibrium in tissues, gels, polyelectrolyte networks Unlimited
- Charge group ionization & electro-diffusion-reaction in molecular networks Unlimited
- Case study: Charged protein transport in charged Unlimited
- Conservation of mass and momentum in fluids; convective solute transfer Unlimited
- Viscous stress-strain rate relations; Navier–Stokes equations Unlimited
- Low Reynolds number flows Unlimited
- Newtonian, fully developed low Reynolds number flows Unlimited
- Diffusion and convection Unlimited
- Concentration boundary layers: Fully-developed flow and transport Unlimited
