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Applied Biofluid
Mechanics
Lee Waite, Ph.D., P.E.
Jerry Fine, Ph.D.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LEE WAITE, PH.D., P.E., is Head of the Department of
AppliedBiology and Biomedical Engineering, and Director
of the Guidant/Eli Lilly and Co. Applied Life Sciences
Research Center, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in
Terre Haute, Indiana. He is also the author of Biofluid
Mechanics in Cardiovascular Systems, published by
McGraw-Hill.
JERRY FINE, PH.D., is Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology....