Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Processes

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.

1. Bioheat transfer and thermal heating for tumor treatment2. Tissue Response to Ultra-Short Laser Irradiation3. Quantitative Models of Thermal Damage to Cells and Tissues4. Solutions to the Transient Bioheat Equation5. Characterizing Respiratory Airflow and Aerosol Condensational Growth in Children and Adults Using CT/MRI Imaging and Computational Methods 6. Transport in Microbiological Environments7. Modeling of the leftward flow and morphogen transport in the embryonic node8. Multiscale modeling of fluid-biofilm interactions in pore networks9. Flow through permeable tubes10. Transdermal Drug Delivery11. Roles of fluid dynamics in cardiovascular devices12. Modelling of blood flow in coronary stented arteries 13. Hemodynamics in the developing cardiovascular system14. Mechanical stress induced blood trauma