The dynamics of a cell suspended in Newtonian liquid subjected to pressure-driven flow at non-negligible inertia cylindrical and square cross section microfluidic channels is studied through three-dimensional arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian finite-element numerical simulations. modeled the neo-Hookean hyper-elastic constitutive equation, which can describe biological particles undergoing moderate...

Following the emergence of many blood transfusion-associated diseases, novel passive cell separation technologies, such as microfluidic devices, are increasingly designed and optimized to separate red cells (RBCs) white (WBCs) from whole blood. These systems allow for rapid diagnosis diseases without relying on complicated expensive hematology instruments flow microscopes, coagulation analyzers...

Inertial microfluidics has been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to immensely promising applications in cell separations and sorting. Despite the intense attention, the moderate efficiencies and low purity of the reported devices have hindered their widespread acceptance. In this work, we report on a simple inertial microfluidic system with high efficiency (>99%) and purity ...

Inertial microfluidics has been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to immensely promising applications in cell separations and sorting. Despite the intense attention, the moderate efficiencies and low purity of the reported devices have hindered their widespread acceptance. In this work, we report on a simple inertial microfluidic system with high efficiency (.99%) and purity ...

A passive, continuous and size-dependent focusing technique enabled by "inertial microfluidics", which takes advantage of hydrodynamic forces, is implemented in this study to focus microparticles. The objective is to analyse the decoupling effects of inertial forces and Dean drag forces on microparticles of different sizes in curvilinear microchannels with inner radius of 800 μm and curvature a...