Biomechanics: Circulation Y.C. van Fung is an English-language textbook aimed at professionals in the medical and technical sciences. It addresses circulatory biomechanics from a historical and multidisciplinary perspective.
This book presents the theory of blood circulation, one of the oldest and most advanced areas of biomechanics, with an overview of contributions from Aristotle to modern insights. The first edition introduced groundbreaking concepts such as residual stress in the heart and analyzed the lung based on solid morphological data and constitutive equations.
The content highlights the engineering, physiological, and medical aspects of circulation and supports them with mathematical foundations and experimental validations. The renaming of Biodynamics: Circulation to Biomechanics: Circulation aligns with the series and other volumes on mechanical properties and dynamics of living tissues.
This textbook is relevant for disciplines such as life sciences, computational biology, and general medical science.