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Finite Element Model to Study the Effect of Lipoma and Liposarcoma on Heat Flow in Tissue Layers of Human Limbs

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Heat transfer processes play a very important role in the thermal control system of the human body in order to maintain the structure and function of human body organs. Any physical or physiological disorder can influence the heat transfer processes leading to disorder in the thermal control system. The impact of various disorders on heat transfer processes in human body organs is still not well understood. In this paper, a model is proposed to study the effect of benign and malignant disorders on heat transfer processes in an elliptical-shaped human limb. The processes like heat conduction, metabolic heat generation, and convective heat transfer by blood perfusion are incorporated in the model. A tumor is considered to be present in the human limb which may be benign or malignant. The benign and malignant tumors considered here are lipoma and liposarcoma, respectively. The finite element method has been employed to obtain the solution. The numerical results have been obtained by using MATLAB and are used to compute the temperature profiles in the region.

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We are highly thankful to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi for providing financial support under the Women Scientist-A (WOS-A) project no. SR/WOS-A/MS-04/2012 (G). DST, New Delhi for carrying out this work.

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    Mamta Agrawal

  2. Department of Mathematics, MANIT, Bhopal, 462051, MP, India

    K. R. Pardasani

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Agrawal, M., Pardasani, K.R. (2019). Finite Element Model to Study the Effect of Lipoma and Liposarcoma on Heat Flow in Tissue Layers of Human Limbs. In: Srinivasacharya, D., Reddy, K. (eds) Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1903-7_28

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