Computational bioengineering / edited by Guigen Zhang. -- Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, c2015. – (58.2056/C738)

Contents

Preface

Editor

Contributors

1. An Integrative Way of Solving Bioengineering Problems  1

2. Toward Predicting the Performance of Joint Arthroplasty  9

3. Mathematical Modelling of Basic Multicellular Units: The Functional Units of Bone Remodeling

4. Effect of Nonlinearity in Tensioned Wires of an External Fixation Device  75

5. Viscoelasticity of Load-Bearing Soft Tissues: Constitutive Formulation, Numerical Integration, and Computational Implementation  95

6. Physical Signals and Solute Transport in Human Intervertebral Disc: Multiphasic Mechano-Electrochemical Finite Element Analysis

7. Multiscale Modeling of Cardiovascular Flows

8. Computational Fluid Modeling of Heart Valves

9. Mathematical Modeling of Cancer Metastases

10. Dynamic Processes in Photodynamic Therapy.

11. Computational Cell Phenotyping in the Lab, Plant, and Clinic

12. Molecular Simulation of Protein-Surface Interactions

13. Structure of the Electrical Double Layers: Insights from Continuum and Atomistic Simulations

14. A Solid-State Nanopore as Biosensor

15. DNA Electrokinetic Translocation through a Nanopore

16. Dielectrophoresis for Bioengineering Applications and Some Associated Issues

17. Image-Based Modeling for Bioengineering Problems

Index  465