The term 'biomedical engineering' refers to the application of the principles and problem-solving techniques of engineering to biology and medicine. Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary branch, as many of the problems health professionals are confronted with have traditionally been of interest to engineers because they involve processes that are fundamental to engineering practice. Biomedical engineers employ common engineering methods to comprehend, modify, or control biological systems, and to design and manufacture devices that can assist in the diagnosis and therapy of human diseases. This Special Issue of Fluids aims to be a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to present and discuss recent developments in the field of biomedical engineering. It contains papers that tackle, both numerically (Computational Fluid Dynamics studies) and experimentally, biomedical engineering problems, with a diverse range of studies focusing on the fundamental understanding of fluid flows in biological systems, modelling studies on complex rheological phenomena and molecular dynamics, design and improvement of lab-on-a-chip devices, modelling of processes inside the human body as well as drug delivery applications. Contributions have focused on problems associated with subjects that include hemodynamical flows, arterial wall shear stress, targeted drug delivery, FSI/CFD and Multiphysics simulations, molecular dynamics modelling and physiology-based biokinetic models.
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risk assessment stability study inclined ?-channel lab-on-a-chip pipette Petri dish single-cell trapping (PP-SCT) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm drug delivery human biomonitoring abdominal aortic aneurysm shikonin hyaluronic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) exposure reconstruction doxorubicin biokinetics blood flow gelation hyperbranched polyester single cell analysis capillary liposomes meniscus small vessel spreading alkannin hydrogel single-cell trapping drug delivery system microfluidics viscoelastic CFD FFMR computational fluid dynamics simulations biochemical processes hematocrit pressure drop passive trapping dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol (DPPG) arterial wall shear stress cell capture free-flowing film falling film microreactor non-Newtonian pulsatile flow tilt trapping haematocrit ?-PIV viscous hydrodynamics gravitational fluid-structure interaction blood physiology-based biokinetics simulations droplet spreading human bio-monitoring shear thinning Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) cancer bisphenol A Casson fluid