Handbook

Mass transfer refers to the transportation of molecules from one location to another. In the human body, such transfer occurs mainly via diffusion and convection, and a thorough understanding of these mechanisms is fundamental to many applications in medicine and biology. In this course, you will be introduced to mass transfer in medicine and biology, and learn how to computationally simulate these processes in a range of medical devices and physiological systems. Topics to be covered include the transfer of solutes across capillaries, mass transfer in haemodialysis, gas exchange in the lungs and membrane oxygenators, transfer of drugs and toxins across the skin, slow release of drugs from implants, as well as mass transfer considerations in biosensors and in tissue engineering.