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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">New Course
in Spring 2005!<br>
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<b>BE.330 / 6.023 / 2.793: Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological
Systems<br>
</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">(Undergraduate
version of BE.430/6.561/2.795/10.539/HST.544)<br>
Instructors: Jay Han (<u>jyhan@mit.edu</u>, BE/EECS) / Roger D. Kamm
(<u>rdkamm@mit.edu</u>, BE/ME)<br>
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In this course, we will introduce the basic driving forces for
electric current, fluid flow, and mass transport, and discuss their
application to a variety of biological systems. Basic mathematical and
engineering tools will be introduced, in the context of biology and
physiology. We will also discuss various electrokinetic phenomena as
an example of coupled nature of chemical-electro-mechanical driving
forces. Applications include transport in biological tissues and
across membranes, manipulation of cells and biomolecules, and
microfluidics. <br>
<br>
The course consists of four subsections, shown as in the
following.<br>
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<font size="-3"><i><b>Part I: Chemical Driving Forces<br>
</b></i></font><font size="-1">Conservation of Mass / Diffusion /
Steady and Unsteady Diffusion / Diffusion with Chemical Reactions<br>
<br>
</font><font size="-3"><i><b>Part II: Electrical Driving Forces<br>
</b></i></font><font size="-1">Maxwell's equations / Ion Transport /
E and B field in biological systems / Electroquasistatics /<br>
Poisson's and Laplace's equation<br>
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</font><font size="-3"><i><b>Part III: Mechanical Driving Forces<br>
</b></i></font><x-tab> </x-tab><font
size="-1">Conservation of momentum / Inviscid and viscous flows /
convective transport / Dimensional Analaysis<br>
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</font><font size="-3"><i><b>Part IV: Electrokinetics<br>
</b></i></font><font size="-1">Debye layer / Zeta potential /
electroosmosis / electrophoresis / application of electrokinetics /
dielectrophoresis / Debye layer repulsion forces / Scaling and
Dimensionless numbers<br>
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</font>Prerequisite: 6.021 or BE.320 or comparable preparation in
transport with permission of instructor<br>
Course format: 4-0-8 (<b>12 unit</b>, 3 lectures 10-11am MWF, 32-144,
1 recitation on Tuesday 3-4pm)</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">* Eligible for
Engineering Concentration credit for the Course 6 (contact Jay Han for
details)<br>
* BME minor subject</font></div>
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