Abstract: Approximate formulas are developed for the stress in the muscle fibers of the myocardium of the left ventircle based on a fiber-fluid model of the tissue. It is shown that the fiber stress ...

Abstract: The pressure field generated by the impact of a rigid or flexible body on the surface of an inviscid, compressible fluid is considered. Some general results for the forces generated by the ...

Abstract: A new continuum mechanical theory for protopod extension in leukocytes is developed. Protopod formation is an active process which is the basis for amoeboid displacement on substrates. Leukocytes ...

Abstract: There is extensive ultrastructural evidence in endothelium for the presence of chained vesicles or clusters of attached vesicles, and they are considered to be involved in specific transport ...

Abstract: The geometry of the proposed model of the parenchyma of a mammalian lung reproduces a cluster of alveoli arranged around a lowest-level air duct. The alveolar walls are assumed to be nonlinear ...

Abstract: The historical development of the mechanics of blood flow can be traced from ancient times, to Leonardo da Vinci and Leonhard Euler and up to the present times with increasing biological ...