A theoretical and experimental study is performed of rapid, fully developed flows of cohesionless granular materials down inclined chutes with a rough base. Two flow types are studied in detail: (1) immature sliding flow, where a stagnant zone forms on the base of the chute, and (2) fully developed sliding flow, where no such zone is formed. A simple phenomenological theory is developed that pr...

The measurement of fluid flows is an emerging field for optical flow computation. In a number of such applications, a tracer is visualized with modern digital cameras. Due to the projective nature of the imaging process, the tracer is integrated across a velocity profile. In this contribution, a novel technique is presented that explicitly models brightness changes due to this integration. Only...

A mathematical model for blood flow in narrow capillaries under the effect of transverse magnetic field has been investigated. It is assumed that there is a lubricating layer between red blood cells and tube wall. The transient flow of the fit red blood cell surrounded by plasma annulus in the narrow capillary is considered. The analysis of fluid flow between red cell and tube wall, when the ce...

micro scale gas flows has attracted significant research interest in the last two decades. in this research, the fluid flow of gases in the stepped micro-channel at a wide range of knudsen number has been analyzed with using the lattice boltzmann (mrt) method. in the model, a modified second-order slip boundary condition and a bosanquet-type effective viscosity are used to consider the velocity...

Throughput enhancement is an important issue for processing large volume of sample, especially for microfilters. As a simple and straightforward method, expansion of channel width can handle larger volume without flow velocity increase. The non-uniform velocity distribution by parabolic profile, however, causes different fluidic force to captured cells in microfilters depending on the position ...

Experimental studies of blood microflows in rectangular biocompatible polymer microchannels measured using micro-particle image velocimetry are reported. The data processing methods, data collection methods, and choice of channel material are demonstrated to impact the velocity profile measurements obtained. Results show that the use of red blood cells as tracer particles creates a large depth ...

For the first time we have been able to measure the flow velocity profile for nanofluidics with a spatial resolution better than 70 nm. Due to the diffraction resolution barrier, traditional optical methods have so far failed in measuring the velocity profile in a nanocapillary or a closed nanochannel without an opened sidewall. A novel optical point measurement method is presented which applie...