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  title info:
    title: Complex Fluids in Biological Systems
    sub title: Experiment, Theory, and Computation
  name:
    name part: Spagnolie, Saverio E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 440 p. 125 illus., 95 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book serves as an introduction to the continuum mechanics and mathematical modeling of complex fluids in living systems. The form and function of living systems are intimately tied to the nature of surrounding fluid environments, which commonly exhibit nonlinear and history dependent responses to forces and displacements. With ever-increasing capabilities in the visualization and manipulation of biological systems, research on the fundamental phenomena, models, measurements, and analysis of complex fluids has taken a number of exciting directions. In this book, many of the world’s foremost experts explore key topics such as: Macro- and micro-rheological techniques for measuring the material properties of complex biofluids and the subtleties of data interpretation Experimental observations and rheology of complex biological materials, including mucus, cell membranes, the cytoskeleton, and blood The motility of microorganisms in complex fluids and the dynamics of active suspensions Challenges and solutions in the numerical simulation of biologically relevant complex fluid flows This volume will be accessible to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in engineering, mathematics, biology, and the physical sciences, but will appeal to anyone interested in the intricate and beautiful nature of complex fluids in the context of living systems.
  table of contents: Part I: Introduction to Complex Fluids -- Introduction to complex fluids -- Complex fluids and soft structures in the human body -- Part II: Rheology of Complex Biological Fluids -- Theoretical microrheology -- Membrane rheology -- Rheology and mechanics of the cell cytoskeleton -- Experimental challenges of shear rheology: how to avoid bad data.-Part III: Locomotion and Active Matter -- Locomotion through complex fluids: an experimental view -- Theory of locomotion through complex fluids -- Theory of active suspensions -- Part IV: Computational Methods -- Computational challenges for simulating strongly elastic flows in biology -- Cell distribution and segregation phenomena during blood flow.
  note: edited by Saverio E. Spagnolie.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cell physiology
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Amorphous substances
  subject:
    topic: Complex fluids
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Fluid mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Fluid Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Cell Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical and Computational Biology
  classification: QH505
  classification: 571.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
  identifier: 9781493920655
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2065-5
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    record creation date: 141127
    record change date: 20151204144321.0
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