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Models and Methods to Evaluate Transport of Drug Delivery Systems Across Cellular Barriers
Published on: October 17, 2013
Mathematical modeling of a carrier-mediated transport process in a liquid membrane
Subramanian Ganesan1, Shanmugarajan Anitha, Alwarappan Subbiah
1Department of Mathematics, Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
An analysis of the reaction diffusion in a carrier-mediated transport process through a membrane is presented. A simple approximate analytical expression of concentration profiles is derived in terms of all dimensionless parameters. Furthermore, in this work we employ the homotopy perturbation method to solve the nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. Moreover, the analytical results have been compared to the numerical simulation using the Matlab program. The simulated results are comparable with the appropriate theories. The results obtained in this work are valid for the entire solution domain.
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