Fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mass transfer can be grouped under the moniker: “Transport Phenomena” because the mechanisms for all three involve molecular diffusion and convection. Thus the governing equations for each are very similar. As a starting point for this subject, fluid mechanics is often chosen.
This course is a “first” transport phenomena course on fluid mechanics with — to the extent possible — example problems and physical phenomena chosen from physiologically, medically and biologically relevant processes. Topics will include fundamentals of fluid motion and stress in fluids on a microscale, the differential equations of fluid flow, solutions of the “ exact"differential equations, limiting behavior such as “creeping flow”, lubrication flow and boundary layer flows and the Bernoulli equation and the integral momentum formulation.
The textbook for the course has been :
G. A. Trusty, F. Yuan D. F. Katz : Transport phenomena in biological systems (2nd Ed.), Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2009.
Two standard fluid mechanics books of interest are:
M. M. Denn: Process Fluid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall 1980.
W. M. Deen: Introduction to chemical engineering fluid mechanics, Cambridge, 2016.