Krogh length
The Krogh Length, , is the distance between capillaries at which nutrients diffuse to based on cellular consumption of the nutrients.[1][2]
It can be described as:
where is the diffusion constant of the solute in the substrate, is the concentration in the channel, and is the consumption by the cells. Units are in terms of length.[citation needed]
See also[]
- August Krogh
- Biomedical engineering
- Capillaries
- Diffusion
- Biot number
- Peclet number
References[]
- ^ Fournier, R. L. Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering 1st edn (Taylor & Francis, London, 1999).
- ^ Choi et al. Microfluidic scaffolds for tissue engineering. Nature Materials (2007) vol. 6 pp. 908-915
Categories:
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Biomedical engineering
- Fluid mechanics