This course is meant to expose students on the fluid mechanics that occur within our cardiovascular system. The first part will consist of investigating the Navier-Stokes equation in order to understand what kind of parameters we are dealing with. The readings will help you understand:

• The physiological aspect that makes the heart work the way it is, including structures that make the valve, the cells that allow the contraction of the heart muscles, the action potential that tells our myocardium when to contract, etc.
• The modelling of the cardiovascular system (moving wall boundaries, lumped system)
• What kind of fluid structures are observed in the cardiovascular system.