Krogh length
Distance nutrients diffuse between capillaries
The Krogh Length, , is the distance to which nutrients diffuse between capillaries, based on cellular consumption of the nutrients.[1][2]
It can be described as:
where is the diffusion constant of the solute in the substrate, is the concentration in the channel, and is the consumption by the cells. Units are in terms of length.[citation needed]
See also
- August Krogh
- Biomedical engineering
- Capillaries
- Diffusion
- Biot number
- Peclet number
References
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