An experimental and numerical study of the flow and mass transfer in a model of the wearable artificial kidney dialyzer.docVIP

Rambod et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:21 /content/9/1/21 RESEARCH Open Access An experimental and numerical study of the flow Research and mass transfer in a model of the wearable artificial kidney dialyzer Edmond Rambod?1, Masoud Beizai?1 and Moshe Rosenfeld*?2 Abstract * Correspondence: rosenf@eng.tau.ac.il Background: Published studies of the past decades have established that mass transfer 2 School of Mechanical across the dialyzer membrane is governed by diffusion, convection and osmosis. While the former is independent of the pressure in the liquids, the latter two