... pulsatile flow particle separation microfluidics Particle separation is an important requirement in chemistry, physics, biology, biotechnology, and medical domains. A division of a fluid flow containing a particle suspension into low and high particle concentration streams is one of the common...

...Saima Iqbal; Shazia Bashir; Muhammad Ahsan; Muhammad Bashir; Saad Shoukat This article investigates the dynamics of droplet generation process in a microfluidic flow-focusing device under the effect of geometry altered by the intersection angle ( φ ), which the flanking inlets make with central...

... NGINEERING . Manuscript received September 5, 2017; final manuscript received July 10, 2018; published online August 16, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Oleg Schilling. 05 09 2017 10 07 2018 Boundary layers Computational fluid dynamics Duct Fluid transients Microfluidics Mixing Non-Newtonian...

... Cavitation Cavity flows Micro-scale flows Microfluidics Mixing Multiphase flows Vortices Wakes Hydrodynamic cavitation, an extensively studied phenomenon at conventional scales, which burdens the operability and performance of hydraulics machines, can occur in microdomain and can adversely...

...Kaushik Kudtarkar; Michael Johnson; Patricia Iglesias; Thomas W. Smith; Michael J. Schertzer This investigation demonstrates microfluidic synthesis of monodisperse hydrogel beads with controllable electromechanical properties. Hydrogel beads were synthesized using aqueous monomer solutions...

... ), p. 051603 . 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.051603 [13] Yen , T. , Soong , C. , and Tzeng , P. , 2007 , “ Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Continuum Simulation for Nano/Mesoscale Channel Flows ,” Microfluid. Nanofluid. , 3 ( 6 ), pp. 665 – 675 . 10.1007/s10404-007-0154-7 [14] Mohamed...

...Teng Zhou; Yongbo Deng; Hongwei Zhao; Xianman Zhang; Liuyong Shi; Sang Woo Joo Viscoelastic solution is encountered extensively in microfluidics. In this work, the particle movement of the viscoelastic flow in the contraction–expansion channel is demonstrated. The fluid is described by the Oldroyd...

...Sajad Pooyan; Mohammad Passandideh-Fard Efficient actuation of liquid slugs in microfluidic circuits is a matter of interest in droplet-based microfluidic (DMF) applications. In this paper, the electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) actuation of a liquid slug fully confined in a microchannel...

... LUIDS E NGINEERING . Manuscript received April 22, 2017; final manuscript received August 3, 2017; published online October 19, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Riccardo Mereu. 22 04 2017 03 08 2017 Micro-scale flows Microfluidics Micro-electromechanical systems have wide applications...

.../228625310_BEM_for_the_analysis_of_fluid_flow_around_MEMS/links/0912f50770dcdef6ed000000/BEM-for-the-analysis-of-fluid-flow-around-MEMS.pdf?origin=publication_list [17] Bandopadhyay , A. , Tripathi , D. , and Chakraborty , S. , 2016 , “ Electroosmosis-Modulated Peristaltic Transport in Microfluidic Channels ,” Phys. Fluids , 28 ( 5...

... November 28, 2016; final manuscript received March 9, 2017; published online June 28, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Mark F. Tachie. 28 11 2016 09 03 2017 Convective heat transfer Direct numerical simulation Microfluidics Non-Newtonian flows Unsteady flows The past few decades have...

... Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF F LUIDS E NGINEERING . Manuscript received October 3, 2016; final manuscript received February 28, 2017; published online May 18, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Moran Wang. 03 10 2016 28 02 2017 Microfluidics The electroosmotic flow...

...Daniel Stoecklein; Michael Davies; Nadab Wubshet; Jonathan Le; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Sculpting inertial fluid flow using sequences of pillars is a powerful method for flow control in microfluidic devices. Since its recent debut, flow sculpting has been used in novel manufacturing approaches...

.... , 1996 , “ A Novel Pump for MEMS Applications ,” ASME J. Fluids Eng. , 118 ( 3 ), pp. 624 – 627 . 10.1115/1.2817807 [8] Berli , C. L. A. , 2010 , “ Output Pressure and Efficiency of Electrokinetic Pumping of Non-Newtonian Fluids ,” Microfluid Nanofluid J. , 8 ( 2 ), pp. 197 – 207...

...Kaushik K. Rangharajan; Matthew J. Gerber; Shaurya Prakash Low Reynolds number flow of liquids over micron-sized structures and the control of subsequently induced shear stress are critical for the performance and functionality of many different microfluidic platforms that are extensively used...

... particles in rectangular channels with higher cross section aspect ratio increases monotonically as particle size increases. Drag Electro-hydrodynamic flows Microfluidics At the particle and channel surfaces, the equilibrium electrical potential must satisfy the constant surface charge density...

...-dimensional microchips. References [1] Kane , A. S. , Hoffmann , A. , Baumgärtel , P. , Seckler , R. , Reichardt , G. , Horsley , D. A. , Schuler , B. , and Bakajin , O. , 2008 , “ Microfluidic Mixers for the Investigation of Rapid Protein Folding Kinetics Using...

... 11 11 2015 Microfluidics Multiphase flows Particle flows Suspensions The Scottish botanist and physician Robert Brown made detailed microscopic observations of suspensions of small pollen particles in water in 1827 and discovered the constant and chaotic movement of particles...

...Ich-Long Ngo; Sang Woo Joo; Chan Byon This study describes the dynamic behaviors of droplet formation in microfluidic cross-junction devices (MFCDs) based on a two-dimensional numerical model using the volume of fluid (VOF) method. The effects of the junction angle ( ϕ = 30 to 90 deg) between...

...Elishai Ezra; Eliezer Keinan; Alex Liberzon; Yaakov Nahmias Flow behavior in complex three-dimensional (3D) microscale domains is the key in the development of microcirculatory pathologies and the design of 3D microfluidics. While numerical simulations are common practice for the derivation...