Transport in Biological Media

Sid Becker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and is a recipient of the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant. He has held academic positions in Germany, the United States, and New Zealand. His research is primarily in computational and analytical modelling of heat and mass transfer processes in biological media. Dr. Becker is also the editor of the book Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes (2017) and co-editor of the books Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes (2015), and Transport in Biological Media (2013). Dr. Kuznetsov is Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. He holds a joint professorial position at the University of North Carolina’s Biomedical Engineering Department. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, an Editorial Board Member of the Proceeding of the Royal Society A, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Porous Media. He is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. In 2014, Dr. Kuznetsov was elected as a Member of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer. He has published more than 400 journal papers, 17 book chapters, 3 books, and 100 conference papers. His works have been cited over 12,000 times: he has an h-index of 51 and an i-10 index of over 220. While his most notable early contributions are in the development of the field of porous media, Prof. Kuznetsov’s research interests in the general area of numerical modeling are extensive, including transport in living tissues, sub-cellular transport, mass transport in neurons and axons, bioheat transport, bioconvective sedimentation, fluid mechanics, flows in microgravity, and turbulence.

Chapter 1: Modeling momentum and mass transport in cellular biological media: from the molecular to the tissue scale

Chapter 2:Thermal pain in tooth: heat transfer, thermomechanics, and ion transport

Chapter 3: Drug Release in Biological Tissues

Chapter 4: Transport of Water and Solutes across Endothelial Barriers and Tumor Cell Adhesion in the Microcirculation

Chapter 5: Carrier Mediated Transport through Biomembranes

Chapter 6: Blood flow through capillary networks

Chapter 7: Models of Cerebrovascular Perfusion

Chapter 8: Mechanobiology of the Arterial Wall




Chapter 9: Shear Stress Variation and Plasma Viscosity Effect in Microcirculation

Chapter 10: Targeted Drug Delivery: Multifunctional Nanoparticles and Direct Micro-drug Delivery to Tumors

Chapter 11: Electrotransport across Membranes in Biological Media: Electrokinetic Theories and Applications in Drug Delivery

Chapter 12: Mass transfer phenomena in electroporation

Chapter 13: Modeling of cell electroporation and its measurable effects in tissue

Chapter 14: Modeling Intracellular Transport in Neurons