Author Description

Prefaced by award announcements at the November 15-20 Anaheim conference, 200-plus papers represent the growing presence of the Bioengineering Division at the IMECE, relating to: student paper competitions at all academic levels; vessel wall and fluid mechanics; cardiac modeling; validation/optimization of computational fluid mechanics; pulmonary and respiratory fluid mechanics; cellular and tissue engineering; clinical applications of CFD, visualization, and virtual reality; vascular applications; impact biomechanics; spine mechanics; joint mechanics and replacement; models for soft tissues; bone mechanics; prosthetics and orthotics; gait and control; mechanics of remodeling tissue; and wear and fixation of artificial joints. Includes an ASME membership application. Papers from symposia on bioheat transfer and mass appear in a separate ASME volume. Author index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR