Updated April 16, 2014: Errata for Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering, 3rd edition, by
Ronald L. Fournier
F 

  y x
1. Page 31, in the middle term of Equation 2.27 the second derivative should be 
2. Page 96, in problem 17 replace “benzene” with “hexane”. Also replace “Example 2.9” with
“Example 2.10”
3. Page 106, on the left side of Equation 3.4 the J should be replaced with a Q
4. Page 103, Table 3.2, under the intracellular fluid column the value for Cl- should be 4 and not 10
5. Page 139, last paragraph bottom of page the sentence, “Equations 4.36 and 4.37 can be
solved…” should read “Equations 4.39 and 4.40 can be solved…”
6. Page 140, first paragraph under Solution heading in the last sentence where it says “… one must
first rearrange Equations 4.38 and 4.40 as” this should read “… one must first rearrange
Equations 4.39 and 4.40 as”
7. Page 142, at the end of the first sentence the math expression should be 
 vx
x yW
t
8. Page 143, at the start of the first sentence this should be Equation 4.43 and not Equation 4.44
9. Page 145, in Equation 4.53 it should be δ(t)
10. Page 158, in the calculation at the top of the page for Wtotal the units on the number 448.4
should be J/kg
11. Page 161, on the far right of Equation 4.82 this should be 2  R cos
12. Page 164, in problem 7 on the far right side of the equation the  should be a L
13. Page 169, the headings for the columns of data are reversed and should be as shown below:
y
V
x
vx x, y 
V
14. Page 178, just below Equation 5.4, the viscosity of water at 37 oC should be 0.692 cP, not 0.76 cP
15. Page 179, in the Stokes-Einstein calculation change the plasma viscosity from 0.76 cP to 0.692
cP. The value of D is then 1.35 x 10-6 cm2/sec which is about 69% larger than the value from
Figure 5.2
16. Page 180, in Equation 5.10 and the text immediately above it should be  C t 
17. Page 181, just under Equation 5.14 where it says “…the concentration boundary layer thickness,
i.e.,” the math expression should read as follows km  D /  C
18. Page 183, in the paragraph under the equation at the top of the page in the first line the term
 C0  CR  / R should be changed to  C0  C  / R
C ( x, y)
3 y  1 y 
 

19. Page 185, Equation 5.21 should read as follows:
 1 
C0
2   C x   2   C x  
3
20. Page 189, the last sentence in Example 5.8 should be replaced with the following, “The average
elution flux of the drug from the polymeric surface is given by”
21. Page 192, in Equation 5.43 replace  D
 C0
D C0  
with
  0
R 
 0
22. Page 193, the last term in Equation 5.50 should be km 2  R L C0 C 
23. Page 195, in Table 5.2; forced convection around a sphere the km is the average i.e. k m ,
turbulent flow within a horizontal slit the km is the average i.e. k m , turbulent flow through a
circular tube the km is the average i.e. k m , packed beds the km is the average i.e. k m
24. Page 199, in the sentence before Equation 5.59, the equation reference should be Equation 5.58
and not Equation 5.54.
25. Page 204, in Equation replace the value of 0.76 cP with 0.692 cP giving a final result of Dplasma =
0.58 Dwater
26. Page 206, Equation 5.61 should read
Dm  a 
 1  
D  r
2
3
5

a
a
a 
1

2
.
1

2
.
09

0
.
95

 
 
  
r
r
 r  

 K r  d C

  dx
27. Page 206, Equation 5.63 should read J s   D AP 
28. Page 210, in Equation 5.71 the range on n should be n = 0,1,2…, 
29. Page 210, in the text below Equation 5.71 the equation should read
Cn x, t  C3n e n De t cos n x
2
30. Page 210, in Equation 5.75 the term between the two equal signs should read

...   Cn  cos m x cos n x dx  ...
n0
L
0
31. Page 217, Equations 5.91a and b should PmS = 0.0184 a-1.223 and PmS = 0.0287a-2.92
 
32. Page 226, in left hand side of Equation 5.103 should be R C
33. Page 229, In the last sentence before Equation 5.117, “Thus, we can use Equation 5.108…” , the
equation reference should be 5.115.
34. Page 229, in the paragraph before Example 5.21, where it says “This is illustrated in Example
5.21…”, the example reference should be 5.22.
35. Page 235, directly under Solution in Example 5.24 this should read “From Equation 5.131, we
have”
36. Page 238, in problem 11, the last equation on this page, the left hand side of the equation
should be
Qf
FB 0 
37. Page 247, in the paragraph below Equation 6.1 at the end of the first sentence this should read
“…at 37 oC of 0.74 mmHg M-1.”
38. Page 248, in the first section of text the units on 130 should be M.
39. Page 252, in Example 6.2 in the first sentence, this should read “…oxygen consumption rate in
M per second…”. Also under the SOLUTION the units on the parenthetical term (8630-6478)
should be M and also in the last term before the = sign
40. Page 254, in Example 6.4 under the SOLUTION note that the units on the Henry’s constant is
0.74
mmHg
M
41. Page 255, at the top of the page in the calculation the units on 8800 should be M
42. Page 259, at the top of the page in the first two sentences replace “x=0” with “x=”
43. Page 262, in Equation 6.29 boundary conditions 2 and 3 should read as shown below:
BC 2 : yˆ  1,
BC 3 : yˆ  0,
Cˆ
yˆ
Cˆ
yˆ
  Da
yˆ 1
0
yˆ  0
44. Page 262, in the first sentence of the paragraph just below Equation 6.29 this should read
“…defined as (VL/D) x (h/L) = (Vh/D), …”
45. Page 263, in the first sentence of SOLUTION for Example 6.8 this should be  = L/h
46. Page 264, in the first sentence of SOLUTION for Example 6.9 this should be  = L/h
47. Page 275, in Example 6.13 in the equation at the top of this page the bracketed term should be
as follows: [(0.4 Caqueous + 0.6 Cemulsion)in – (0.4 Caqueous + 0.6 Cemulsion)out]
48. Page 276, in problem 1, the units on the number 15 in this problem should be M sec-1
49. Page 276, in problem 3 on the minus sign on the left side of the given equation should be a plus
sign and on the very right hand side of the equation this should read
1
RBrockm anbody m etabolic
3
50. Page 277, in problem 18 this should read “…in the spheroid in M per second.”
51. Page 279, in problem 29 the membrane thickness is 50 microns, not 50 µM
52. Page 310, in Equations 7.74 and 7.75 and surrounding analysis the symbol “A” is used for two
different things. One is drug dose and the other is a constant in Equation 7.69.
53. Page 350, in Equation 8.57, the left hand side of the equation should be rS
54. Page 330, in the third paragraph above Example 8.2 in the last sentence of this paragraph the
equation should be as follows DBmax imum  Qb / z 1  Qb Qd  / Qb  Qd  .
55. Page 337, in the first sentence this should read “…a very thin film of blood with diffusional
distances on the order of a few microns.”
56. Page 340, this sentence should be “A value for m may be estimated by Equations 6.40 and 6.41.”
57. Page 343, in the sentence above Equations 8.45 and 8.46 the reference equations should be
Equations 6.40 and 6.41.
58. Page 367, in problem 12 this should read “…that the entering serum bilirubin concentration is
200 M.”