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This course covers the fundamental driving forces for transport—chemical gradients, electrical interactions, and fluid flow—as applied to the biology and biophysics of molecules, cells, and tissues.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
694 years, 4 months
Units & Quizzes
25
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
Course Currilcum
- Course introduction, overview, and objectives Unlimited
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- Introduction to random processes Unlimited
- Diffusion as a random walk Unlimited
- Constitutive equations for diffusion (Fick’s Laws) Unlimited
- Examples of diffusion-reaction Unlimited
- Case study: IGF-1 diffusion-reaction within tissues and cell seeded scaffolds Unlimited
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- 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 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 tissues & gels 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; Stokes equation; Scaling and dimensional analysis Unlimited
- Newtonian, fully developed low Reynolds number flows Unlimited
- Diffusion and convection; The Peclet number; Convection-diffusion-reaction and boundary layers Unlimited
- Concentration boundary layers: Fully-developed flow and transport Unlimited
