Micro robots in large scale swarms often have a very restricted program memory which limits the robot’s application range. We present a finite state machine operating system for swarm micro robots, that can overcome such problems and gives the designer of swarm algorithms a tool that is easy to handle. The operating system’s flow control or rather the robot’s control program is represented in t...

This paper reports on the development of a microfluidic platform to study mass transport behaviour of blood cells at micro-scale stenosis where local strain-rate micro-gradients trigger platelet aggregation. We present the design, fabrication and blood testing of a microfluidic device that incorporates symmetric or asymmetric flow focusing using a single pressure driver to study the hemodynamic...

We present numerical modeling and experimental studies of flow optimization inside a batch microfluidic micro-reactor used for synthesis of human-scale doses of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers. Novel techniques are used for mixing within, and eluting liquid out of, the coin-shaped reaction chamber. Numerical solutions of the general incompressible Navier Stokes equations along with t...

Photocatalytic micro-channel reactor was built by using stereolithography process. A reactor with a micro-channel as a support of TiO2 photocatalyst was designed in order to reduce dimensions while improving the efficiency. Photocatalytic activity of the micro-reactor at various flow rates was evaluated by the inlet and outlet concentrations of salicylic acid as a model of pollutant. Influence ...

This paper investigates the axial unsteady flow of a generalized Burgers’ fluid with fractional constitutive equation in a circular micro-tube, in presence of a time-dependent pressure gradient and an electric field parallel to flow direction and a magnetic field perpendicular on the flow direction. The mathematical model used in this work is based on a time-nonlocal constitutive equation for s...

objective: in this article, a numerical study is conducted on mixing of two fluids in the liquid phase with two different concentrations of a chemical species in the electro-osmotic flow. methods: the base liquid is an electrolyte which flows in a two-dimensional micro-channel having electrically charged walls. lorentz electric force, which is used as stimulating flow factor, is created by appl...

A highly efficient and portable parallel multigrid algorithm for solving a discretised form of the coupled lubrication equations for three-dimensional, gravity-driven, continuous thin film free-surface flow over substrates containing micro-scale topography is presented. Although applicable to problems involving heterogeneous and distributed features, for illustrative purposes the algorithm is b...

Optical feedback interferometry (OFI) applied to microscale flow sensing is studied theoretically and experimentally. A new model is investigated that predicts the OFI signal. This model is based on the Lang-Kobayashi equations and highlights the importance of the laser beam propagation and the laser-particle scattering performances. For the first time, the angle distribution of the scattered l...

Experimental investigations of plastic flow have demonstrated temporal intermittency as deformation proceeds in a series of intermittent bursts with scale-free size distribution. In the present investigation, a corresponding spatial intermittency is demonstrated for plastic flow of KCl single crystals. Deformation bursts lead to large surface steps with a height distribution that is consistent ...