microfluid
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- The phenomenon of two-phase flows is characterized by its wide range of presence in nature and industrial applications.
- Flow of rigid-particle suspensions is prevalent in nature and is important for a range of engineering applications across many disciplines.
- The flow in a microchannel is usually characterized as a low Reynolds number (Re) so that good mixing is quite difficult to be achieved.
- The explosive growth of micro systems has created a great need for the development of microfluid devices.
- Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is one of the most widely used polymers for the generation of microfluidic chips.
- The measurement of volumetric blood flow in small vessels in vitro and in vivo poses a significant technological challenge.
- Creating a reliable and accurate Red Blood Cell (RBC) aggregation model for small and midsize arteries and veins is still an active research subject with more in focus with a multi-scale approach including mesoscale effects.
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has become a valuable tool to study the complex gas-solid hydrodynamics in the circulating fluidized bed (CFB).
- Nanofluids are considered as potential working fluids for advanced heat-exchange devices.
- Two-phase flow boiling within pin-fin microchannel heat sinks has gain increasing attentions over the last decades owing to the demands for high efficiency cooling applications, while the detailed interactions between a vapor bubble and heated pillar structures are still not fully understood.
- Although a microfabricated cantilever with a high quality factor can detect changes in its mass with unprecedented sensitivity, severe damping reduces it mass sensitivity when operated in a liquid medium thus restricting its use as a mass sensor for biomolecular detection.
- The unique properties of microemulsions, such as stability, ease of preparation and their ability to form spontaneously have attracted considerable interest in numerous applications including, synthesis of polymers, delivery of active compounds, solubilisation of enzymes in organic solvents and biocatalysis.
- Miniaturization and silicon integration of micro enzyme reactors for applications in micro total analysis systems (mu TASs) require new methods to achieve structures with a large surface area onto .
- Microfluidic fuel cell (MFC) suffers from small single cell output power due to the inherent cell size limitation as microscale geometries are prerequisite to prevent reactant crossover between the anode and cathode.
- High-volume production of monodisperse droplets is of importance for industrial applications due to increased emulsion stability, precise control over droplet volumes, and the formation of periodic arranged structures.