ABSTRACT
S. M. Becker Institute for Thermo-Fluid Dynamics, Hamburg University of Technology Hamburg, Germany
A. V. Kuznetsov Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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The subject of this chapter concerns modeling and treatment of mass transport through biological tissues, specifically the skin. To the reader unfamiliar with the physiological aspects of the skin, a basic description of the skin and each of its composite layers is provided. The treatment of the skin as a porous medium is then addressed. The chapter continues by introducing current methods used to describe nondestructive transdermal transport of low-molecular weight hydrophilic and hydrophobic solutes. This provides a glimpse of the current approaches of the porous media perspective of transdermal transport, and presents access to a list of these models.
