Pumping fluid is one of the crucial parts any microfluidic system. Using electric and magnetic fields as a substitute for moving can have many advantages. In this study hydrodynamic heat transfer characteristics electroosmotic flow under influence lateral transverse field, are studied numerically. Results indicate that dimensionless parameters such Hartmann number, intensity pressure gradient p...

The convergence rate of the discrete velocity method (DVM), which has been applied extensively in the area of rarefied gas dynamics, is studied via a Fourier stability analysis. The spectral radius of the continuum form of the iteration map is found to be equal to one, which justifies the slow convergence rate of the method. Next the efficiency of the DVM is improved by introducing various acce...

We build on the concept of hot intrusion embossing to develop a one-step fabrication method for thermoplastic microfluidic channels containing integrated three-dimensional features. This was accomplished with simple, rapid-to-fabricate imprint templates containing microcavities that locally control the intrusion of heated thermoplastic based on their cross-sectional geometries. The use of circu...

In hemodynamics, the inherent intermittency of two-phase cellular-level flow has received little attention. Unsteadiness is reported and quantified for the first-time in the literature using a combination of fluorescent dye labelling, time-resolved scanning confocal microscopy, and micro-particle image velocimetry (μPIV). The near-wall red blood cell (RBC) motion of physiologic high-hematocrit ...

Two-dimensional Poisson-Boltzmann and momentum equations are solved simultaneously to study the transient characteristics of electro-osmotic pumping in a rectangular microchannel. A finite difference scheme with variable grid spacing is used to calculate electric potential distribution. Time variations of velocity profiles are obtained by using a combined ADI-TDMA technique. Numerical solutions...

A finite element simulation has been used in order to study the partition chromatography process of one species between an aqueous mobile phase and an organic stationary phase located at the bottom of a rectangular microchannel. The transient model incorporates convection--diffusion of the species in the water phase coupled to the diffusion in the stationary organic phase by the way of the part...

This paper experimentally and numerically investigated the heat transfer and friction characteristics of microfluidic heat sinks with variously-shaped micro-ribs, i.e., rectangular, triangular and semicircular ribs. The micro-ribs were fabricated on the sidewalls of microfluidic channels by a surface-micromachining micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and used as turbulators to improv...

The current microdevices used for biomedical research are often manufactured using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Although it is possible to fabricate precise and reproducible rectangular microchannels using soft lithography techniques, this kind of geometry may not reflect the actual physiology of the microcirculation. Here, we present a simple method to fabricate circular p...