Dynamics, of fluid or solid objects, is a branch of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics and, as yet, it is not a branch of medicine. Coronary heart disease, on the other hand, is a branch of medicine that, as yet, does not include the dynamics of coronary blood flow. This book is dedicated to bridging these two seemingly disparate ends. The rise of biomedical engineering and biophysics in recent years attests to the need for this genre of books. The challenge is to produce a book that speaks successfully on both sides of the fence.

Autorentext

The author, originally trained in fluid dynamics, has been teaching and working on the dynamics of blood flow in general and coronary blood flow in particular for the past thirty years and has produced a book that will appeal to physicians, physicists and engineers.

Inhalt
Static Design Issues.- Modelling Preliminaries.- Basic Lumped Elements.- Forced Dynamics of the RLC System.- The Analysis of Composite Waveforms.- Composite Pressure-Flow Relations.- Lumped Models.- Elements of Unlumped-Model Analysis.- Basic Unlumped Models.- Dynamic Pathologies.